From: Andreas Winkelmann (mlawinkelmann.de)
Date: Fri Jun 16 2006 - 06:12:35 CDT

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Am Thursday 15 June 2006 17:33 schrieb Boudewijn Ector:

> <begin>
> bigmac:~ boudewijn$ telnet <domain> 25
> Trying <IP>...
> Connected to <domain>.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> EHLO <domain>
> <end>
>
> After the EHLO it seems to die, but nothing is seen in the logs. When
> trying to send email from localhost to another domain , this is seen in
> /var/log/messages:
> <begin>
> Jun 14 22:53:15 mail postfix/smtpd[12037]: match_string:
> smtpd_access_maps ~? smtpd_access_maps
> Jun 14 22:53:15 mail postfix/smtpd[12037]: smtpd_sasl_initialize: SASL
> config file is smtpd.conf
> Jun 14 22:53:15 mail postfix/smtpd[12037]: fatal: SASL per-process
> initialization failed

Most time, I see this error there are some syntax-errors in the smtpd.conf

The Option/Value Syntax is:

option: value

_Not_:

option = value
option : value
...

> Jun 14 22:53:16 mail postfix/master[12016]: warning: process
> /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 12037 exit status 1
> Jun 14 22:53:16 mail postfix/master[12016]: warning:
> /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
> </end>

> PS: if more configuration files are required, please tell me.

Show your smtpd.conf.

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        Andreas

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