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Re: authentication when sending mail

From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Mon Feb 07 2005 - 10:05:52 CST


* denis moeller <nimbuslatrina.de>:
> At 15:03 07.02.2005 +0100, you wrote:
> >> I compiled cyrus-sasl-2.1.20
> >
> >There are a lot of typos and wrong parameters in your current
> >smtpd.conf. I suggest you build a completely new one:
>
> okay I did
>
> >Then, since you compiled SASL yourself, use "sample-server" and
> >"sample-client" in the Cyrus-SASL.2.x source directory to test
> >authentication. Create a symbolic link from sample.conf to smtpd.conf,
> >start "server" and test from another termial with "client".
>
> okay I did - it's not working. and it not even drops the required statement
> to mysql (I'm watching mysql sql query log).
> patrick - thanks a lot for your help - what now? :-)

Take a look at log messages from the auth facility. SASL logs there. you
should see some output there.

prick

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