Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-30 Thread mouss
Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, J.P. Trosclair wrote: The reason your mail is working locally is probably because postfix is configured to accept mail from the local network or localhost without any sort of authentication but not when the mail is comming from an untrusted network:

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-30 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: You're testing this while running as root - you need to test this running as the system user that ultimately will be used to run postfix. Graham, Wietse, Noel, mouss: I turned off SASL authorization and returned to the status we had for years.

Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
My wife uses her laptop connected wirelessly to the network, but sending mail has failed since I upgraded postfix to 2.5.2 and enabled SASL authorization. Thunderbird keeps asking for her password on the server when she tries to send mail (incoming mail reaches her inbox with no problems) and

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Wietse Venema
Rich Shepard: My wife uses her laptop connected wirelessly to the network, but sending mail has failed since I upgraded postfix to 2.5.2 and enabled SASL authorization. Thunderbird keeps asking for her password on the server when she tries to send mail (incoming mail reaches her inbox with

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread mouss
Rich Shepard wrote: My wife uses her laptop connected wirelessly to the network, but sending mail has failed since I upgraded postfix to 2.5.2 and enabled SASL authorization. Thunderbird keeps asking for her password on the server when she tries to send mail (incoming mail reaches her inbox

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, Wietse Venema wrote: There are lots of hits when you search the web for: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied Likely one of them will have the answer. I've tried a couple but without success. Also, I fixed main.cf per mouss' message. I had cut and

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008, mouss wrote: smtpd_* parameters are used by 'smtpd', the thing that listens for smtp connections. this is what you contact when you telnet or when Thunderbird send mail. mouss, Mea culpa! I cut this from the README file and pasted it into main.cf without paying close

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread J.P. Trosclair
Hi, this is my first post on the list so if I do something out of the ordinary please forgive me. The reason your mail is working locally is probably because postfix is configured to accept mail from the local network or localhost without any sort of authentication but not when the mail is

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: Unfortunately the alternate usecase support in SASL is virtually non existent, so you're stuck using strace to tease out the real error that is preventing SASL from working. If you are truly stuck, use strace (or your local equivalent) to run

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: Once testsaslauthd works, then add postfix to the mix. Graham, I just ran testsaslauthd for my wife's account from the server: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# testsaslauthd -u pamela -p herpassword 0: OK Success. So that seems to be OK. Same success if

Re: Fixing a SASL AUTH Problem

2008-08-29 Thread Noel Jones
Rich Shepard wrote: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008, Graham Leggett wrote: Once testsaslauthd works, then add postfix to the mix. Graham, I just ran testsaslauthd for my wife's account from the server: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# testsaslauthd -u pamela -p herpassword 0: OK Success. So that seems to be