On Wednesday 11 January 2012 09:08:03 Wietse Venema wrote: > Fortunately, the Postfix SMTP server is a short-lived process that > runs for a few minutes at a time without ever changing the system > configuration. Every new Postfix SMTP server process is like a > new-born with a blank memory of its past. > > Therefore, if SASL logins fail, especially when they fail persistently, > then either the SASL client has changed, or the SASL server > infrastructure **outside POSTFIX** has changed.
But thats just it, they don't fail persistently. I mean, it all works fine, until all of a sudden it doesn't anymore and only for these accounts. The other accounts continue to work fine. > > This would be a good time to provide configuration information about > how Postfix interfaces to the SASL server infrastructure **outside > POSTFIX**. > > There are two such possible infrastructures: Dovecot or Cyrus SASL. > This choice is made with the smtpd_sasl_type parameter. > > Examine the output from: > > # postconf smtpd_sasl_type smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus > If this is "cyrus", you need to report what's in the smtpd.conf > file, whose location depends on how your distributor has tweaked > the details of the SASL server infrastructure **outside POSTFIX**. > This file could be located in /usr/local/lib/sasl2, in /etc/postfix, > or any number of other places. /usr/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf ########################## pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux log_level: 7 ########################## /etc/authlib/authmysqlrc ########################### MYSQL_SERVER localhost MYSQL_PORT 3306 MYSQL_USERNAME postfix_user MYSQL_PASSWORD postfixpassword MYSQL_DATABASE postfix_db MYSQL_USER_TABLE mailbox MYSQL_CRYPT_PWFIELD password MYSQL_UID_FIELD 5000 MYSQL_GID_FIELD 5000 MYSQL_LOGIN_FIELD username MYSQL_HOME_FIELD "/home/vmail" MYSQL_NAME_FIELD name MYSQL_MAILDIR_FIELD maildir MYSQL_QUOTA_FIELD quota ########################### /etc/authlib/authdaemonrc ########################### authmodulelist="authmysql" authmodulelistorig="authuserdb authpam authpwd authshadow authpgsql authldap authmysql authcustom authpipe" daemons=5 authdaemonvar=/var/spool/authdaemon DEBUG_LOGIN=2 DEFAULTOPTIONS="" LOGGEROPTS="" ########################### /etc/conf.d/saslauthd ########################### SASLAUTHD_OPTS="-m /var/run/saslauthd -r -a pam" ########################### By the way, I'm running Arch Linux, in case thats relevant. (You never know)
