Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: You're testing this while running as root - you need to test this running as the system user that ultimately will be used to run postfix. Graham, Wietse, Noel, mouss: I turned off SASL authorization and returned to the status we had for years. Sinc

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-30 Thread Graham Leggett
Rich Shepard wrote: I just ran testsaslauthd for my wife's account from the server: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# testsaslauthd -u pamela -p 0: OK "Success." You're testing this while running as root - you need to test this running as the system user that ultimately will be used to run postfix.

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread mouss
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, J.P. Trosclair wrote: The reason your mail is working locally is probably because postfix is configured to accept mail from the local network or localhost without any sort of authentication but not when the mail is comming from an untrusted network:

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Noel Jones
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: Once testsaslauthd works, then add postfix to the mix. Graham, I just ran testsaslauthd for my wife's account from the server: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# testsaslauthd -u pamela -p 0: OK "Success." So that seems to be OK. Same

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: Once testsaslauthd works, then add postfix to the mix. Graham, I just ran testsaslauthd for my wife's account from the server: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# testsaslauthd -u pamela -p 0: OK "Success." So that seems to be OK. Same success if I add our

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: Unfortunately the alternate usecase support in SASL is virtually non existent, so you're stuck using strace to tease out the real error that is preventing SASL from working. If you are truly stuck, use strace (or your local equivalent) to run testsaslau

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, J.P. Trosclair wrote: The reason your mail is working locally is probably because postfix is configured to accept mail from the local network or localhost without any sort of authentication but not when the mail is comming from an untrusted network: All outgoing mail com

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Graham Leggett
Rich Shepard wrote: I installed cyrus-sasl a couple of postfix versions back, so I should learn how to properly configure it. I followed the SASL_README to set it up. Having changed perms to 777 on /var/spool/postfix/var and its subdirectories, I have no idea what other permissions are preve

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread J.P. Trosclair
Hi, this is my first post on the list so if I do something out of the ordinary please forgive me. The reason your mail is working locally is probably because postfix is configured to accept mail from the local network or localhost without any sort of authentication but not when the mail is com

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, mouss wrote: smtpd_* parameters are used by 'smtpd', the thing that listens for smtp connections. this is what you contact when you telnet or when Thunderbird send mail. mouss, Mea culpa! I cut this from the README file and pasted it into main.cf without paying close at

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wietse Venema wrote: There are lots of hits when you search the web for: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied Likely one of them will have the answer. I've tried a couple but without success. Also, I fixed main.cf per mouss' message. I had cut and pas

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread mouss
Rich Shepard wrote: My wife uses her laptop connected wirelessly to the network, but sending mail has failed since I upgraded postfix to 2.5.2 and enabled SASL authorization. Thunderbird keeps asking for her password on the server when she tries to send mail (incoming mail reaches her inbox wit

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Shepard: >My wife uses her laptop connected wirelessly to the network, but sending > mail has failed since I upgraded postfix to 2.5.2 and enabled SASL > authorization. Thunderbird keeps asking for her password on the server when > she tries to send mail (incoming mail reaches her inbox wi