Package: postfix
Version: 2.2.4-1.0.1
Severity: important
[Solution at bottom ...]
I checked other bugs shown by reportbug.
Examples:- 273426 303523 306577 147541 ...
All are talking about SASL problems wherein postfix is the SASL SERVER
or something about mysql etc...
My problem is that I am using postfix on debian to connect to my ISP (i.e,
postfix is a SASL client).
154207 is about a configuration issue (not install issue) for a
postfix-sasl-client-mode operation.
252837 has identical problem, but its reports the nature of the problem very
narrowly...
I put in XTRA INFO for that bug report.
265375 is a great report on same problem, but with one gotcha :-
I didn't know I needed that libsasl2-modules, and that was lost in the long
list of suggested modules.
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postfix-sasl /or/ postfix-tls packages were perfect from end-user perspective.
<I install postfix, and now I need to add sasl to it to connect to my ISP.>
So I will naturally look for postfix-sasl package to install.
Please bring back the postfix-sasl or postfix-tls package, ...
(which CURRENTLY should be nothing other than a link to the libsasl2-modules)
In my current install postfix-tls is missing in the list of packages.
(yes I did an apt-get update)
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386
Binary-1 (20051212)]/ etch contrib main
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
============== MANUAL SOLUTION ==============
root# apt-get install libsasl2-modules
You will otherwise get error messages like [no worthy mechs found] :-
postfix/smtp[25991]: maps_find: smtp_sasl_passwd: hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass
(0,100): outgoing.verizon.net = sarma:rahasya1
postfix/smtp[25991]: smtp_sasl_passwd_lookup: host 'outgoing.verizon.net'
user 'sarma' pass 'rahasya1'
postfix/smtp[25991]: starting new SASL client
postfix/smtp[25991]: name_mask: noanonymous
postfix/smtp[25991]: smtp_sasl_authenticate: outgoing.verizon.net[206.46.
232.12]: SASL mechanisms LOGIN
postfix/smtp[25991]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs
found
Then the simple empty option (in main.cf) will work!!!!
smtp_sasl_security_options =
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages postfix depends on:
ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.66 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-23 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii libsasl2 2.1.19-1.7 Authentication abstraction library
ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-3 SSL shared libraries
ii netbase 4.23 Basic TCP/IP networking system
Versions of packages postfix recommends:
ii mailx [mail-read 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent
pn resolvconf <none> (no description available)
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