Re: Visibility of Postfix docs, (was: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?)

2008-12-04 Thread Wietse Venema
M. Fioretti: above, one quickly learns that searching directly via Google *without* site restrictions is *better*, as in more efficient than the postfix.org search box. Because, very often, it returns at least one or two task-focused tutorials, pages from

Re: Visibility of Postfix docs, (was: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?)

2008-12-04 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 06:38:39 AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote: Unfortunately, many non-postfix-site howtos are wrong, with exceptions such as Koetter et al. OK. Do not confuse search engine *popularity* with *quality*. I never did. I just gave an explanation of something others observed. It

Re: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-04 Thread Magnus Bäck
On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 23:06 CET, Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Bäck wrote: [...] You can choose any username you like as long as it matches whatever is in your credential database. So far we don't know anything about that. MySQL, sasldb, LDAP,

Re: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Magnus Bäck wrote: On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 23:06 CET, Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Magnus Bäck wrote: [...] You can choose any username you like as long as it matches whatever is in your credential database. So far we don't know anything about that. MySQL,

Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I'm trying to test my Postfix/Dovecot set up to determine why (what I'm doing wrong) a Perl script using Mail::Sender is failing. Errors say connection failed -- rather ambiguous I'd say! :-) This is for a system with multiple (virtual?) domains. I'm using telnet to test but am having a

Re: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread Magnus Bäck
On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 19:52 CET, Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to test my Postfix/Dovecot set up to determine why (what I'm doing wrong) a Perl script using Mail::Sender is failing. Errors say connection failed -- rather ambiguous I'd say! :-)

Re: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
Magnus Bäck wrote: On Wednesday, December 03, 2008 at 19:52 CET, Roderick A. Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to test my Postfix/Dovecot set up to determine why (what I'm doing wrong) a Perl script using Mail::Sender is failing. Errors say connection failed -- rather

Re: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread mouss
Roderick A. Anderson a écrit : Magnus Bäck wrote: [snip] Why do you insist on testing this with telnet? You will introduce another possible error source (incorrect encoding of the credentials) and it's a use case that you're supposedly not really interested in. Because I can do it one step

Visibility of Postfix docs, was: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 00:02:33 AM +0100, mouss wrote: Roderick A. Anderson a écrit : Magnus Bäck wrote: [snip] Why do you insist on testing this with telnet?... Because I can do it one step at a time and see the results that Postfix sends back. I hadn't thought of telnet possibly

Re: Visibility of Postfix docs, was: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread Victor Duchovni
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 01:19:57AM +0100, M. Fioretti wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 00:02:33 AM +0100, mouss wrote: Roderick A. Anderson a ?crit : Magnus B?ck wrote: [snip] Why do you insist on testing this with telnet?... Because I can do it one step at a time and see the

Re: Visibility of Postfix docs, was: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?

2008-12-03 Thread Wietse Venema
M. Fioretti: On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 00:02:33 AM +0100, mouss wrote: Roderick A. Anderson a ?crit : Magnus B?ck wrote: [snip] Why do you insist on testing this with telnet?... Because I can do it one step at a time and see the results that Postfix sends back. I hadn't thought

Re: Visibility of Postfix docs, (was: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?)

2008-12-03 Thread mouss
M. Fioretti a écrit : On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 00:02:33 AM +0100, mouss wrote: Roderick A. Anderson a écrit : Magnus Bäck wrote: [snip] Why do you insist on testing this with telnet?... Because I can do it one step at a time and see the results that Postfix sends back. I hadn't thought of

Re: Visibility of Postfix docs, (was: Testing SASL HOWTO using telnet/Postfix/dovecot?)

2008-12-03 Thread M. Fioretti
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 01:45:35 AM +0100, mouss wrote: not sure I undertsand what you have in mind. but lessee. ... see the archives if really interested. Now, answering to this: was this really long? difficult? and to the comment along similar lines from Wietse: Next time, try the SEARCH