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Subject: Re: CRAM-MD5 problem SOLVED :-)
From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Sat Jun 17 2000 - 17:14:57 CDT

Marek Habersack:
> Hi *,
>
> Well, the solution is embarrasingly simple :-)) - one needs to pay
> attention to realms used by postfix and set in the sasldb database for the
> users. I suggest setting the default realm to the FQDN of the host, as
> that's what Postfix will use as the realm by default. After doing
>
> saslpasswd -u FQDN username
>
> The CRAM-MD5 works as expected. The problem, as in many cases, was in the
> failing human brain, not the software :)))

Great. What *is* the default realm used by saslpasswd?

The Postfix SMTP server defaults to:

    smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname

That is, as of one of the last snapshots.

        Wietse