Re: confused about authentication/SASL--taking a backward step

2009-08-06 Thread Noel Jones
Jay G. Scott wrote: I used this to generate the AUTH PLAIN string: perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\\0test\\0testpass");' too many '\'s use perl -MMIME::Base64 -e \ 'print encode_base64("\0test\0testpass");' AHRlc3QAdGVzdHBhc3M= http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#serve

Re: confused about authentication/SASL--taking a backward step

2009-08-06 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thursday 06 August 2009 12:55:02 Jay G. Scott wrote: > Sigh. Truly, I am a noob. Try troubleshooting with a regular MUA such as Thunderbird. [snip] > However, this does not work: > > [r...@smail ~]# telnet smail 25 [snip] > I used saslpasswd2 to set up the user, I reset the unix password > to

Re: confused about authentication/SASL--taking a backward step

2009-08-06 Thread Jay G. Scott
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 04:28:22PM -0500, Noel Jones wrote: > Jay G. Scott wrote: >> Greetings, >> > > Instructions to test SASL: > http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_test [snip] Sigh. Truly, I am a noob. I spent all morning getting the sasl2-sample-[server|client] to finally give

Re: confused about authentication/SASL

2009-08-06 Thread /dev/rob0
On Thursday 06 August 2009 01:34:32 Mikael Bak wrote: > Jay G. Scott wrote: > [snip] > > > mynetworks_style = host > > [snip] > > > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, > > permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination > > [snip] > > Hi, > Are you running mutt on the postfix ho

Re: confused about authentication/SASL

2009-08-05 Thread Mikael Bak
Jay G. Scott wrote: [snip] > mynetworks_style = host [snip] > smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, > permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination [snip] Hi, Are you running mutt on the postfix host? In that case perhaps that is why you can send email without AUTH. H

Re: confused about authentication/SASL

2009-08-05 Thread Noel Jones
Jay G. Scott wrote: Greetings, I'm a newbie at the mail w/ authentication thing. So tell me what to read, since what I need is how to find answers and not just the answers. But I've been searching the web and I'm getting close, but no exact matches. postfix-2.3.3 cyrus-sasl-*-2.1.22 saslauthd

confused about authentication/SASL

2009-08-05 Thread Jay G. Scott
Greetings, I'm a newbie at the mail w/ authentication thing. So tell me what to read, since what I need is how to find answers and not just the answers. But I've been searching the web and I'm getting close, but no exact matches. postfix-2.3.3 cyrus-sasl-*-2.1.22 saslauthd is running. This is j