On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 06:22:55PM -0800, Jeff Lacki wrote:
> > >> smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes
> >
> > > Do you know what this parameter setting does?
>
> After hours of digging into this, that particular message
> seems to have come up because I didnt want plaintext
> coming across in the smtp connection so I set:
>
> smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous, noplaintext
>
> By having noplaintext I got the msg because my
> dovecot and SASL configs weren't setup to handle
> anything but plain and login, so...
>
> in /etc/dovecot.conf
> auth default {
> mechanisms = plain login digest-md5
> }
>
> in smtpd.conf:
Irrelevant; that is a Cyrus SASL file. You seem to have confused
Dovecot and Cyrus. Look only at the Dovecot section in the Postfix
SASL_README, and you will see no mention at all of saslauthd nor
Cyrus configuration files.
> The SASL doc didnt explain about setting up
> smtpd_sasl_security_options with noplaintext (afaik) in
> what I was reading per the mechanisms so I got lost.
SASL_README presents a basic setup of Dovecot SASL. Advanced Dovecot
features are documented at http://wiki.dovecot.org/ .
> Im just posting this for the next guy who might have
> a problem.
Let's hope he doesn't waste time on Cyrus, if he's wanting to use
Dovecot. :)
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