I have three postfix 2.9.5 servers: chombo, rush, yoshi. Chombo relays to rush and yoshi for outbound email. Outbound relay requires SASL authentication. Rush and yoshi run Dovecot 2.1.12 servers with simple passwd-file backends.

If I create a new password hash for chombo's user, houseloki, on either rush or yoshi:

# doveadm pw -u houseloki -p <password>
{CRAM-MD5}...

Then I add that to rush and yoshi's passwd file:

houseloki@_auth.bluerosetech.com:{CRAM-MD5}...

Then `doveadm reload`, it works fine:

# doveadm auth houseloki <password>
passdb: houseloki auth succeeded
extra fields:
    user=houseloki@_auth.bluerosetech.com

So I add that username and password to the smtp_sasl_password_maps hash file on chombo, reload postfix, and then try to relay something from chombo, it fails with rush and yoshi logging warnings like:

Feb 19 03:32:33 yoshi postfix/smtpd[75783]: warning: chombo.example.com[2001:db8::2]: SASL DIGEST-MD5 authentication failed: <really long string redacted>

Rush and yoshi have other hashes in their passwd files, and if I configure chombo to use one of those, it works fine. Those hashes use digest-md5 and are at least a few years old. I tried that scheme instead of the default cram-md5, as well as several others, but none work. I've poured over the wiki and man pages, but can't find the problem.

What am I missing?  Why can I not generate new hashes correctly?

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