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Re: Problem with Postfix and SASL/NTLM

From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Sun Apr 01 2007 - 12:06:19 CDT


* Adso Baskerville <adso.baskergmail.com>:
> Recently I adquire an SmartPhone with Windows Mobile, and I want to use the
> mail program for send/receive mail. When I config the PDA to use my server,
> I can receive mail, but I cant send.
>
> Every time I try to send mail to a domain outer the server with the PDA
> (with thunderbird, outlook, etc I have no problems) I have this error
>
> Mar 31 00:21:42 www postfix/smtpd[24525]: connect from unknown[ > XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]
> Mar 31 00:21:43 www postfix/smtpd[24525]: warning: unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]: > SASL NTLM authentication failed
> Mar 31 00:21:44 www postfix/smtpd[24525]: disconnect from unknown[ > XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]
>
> Searching in google I can see that a lot of people have this error, but they
> have another error accompanied: "SASL authentication failure: no secret in
> database", but I dont have this error.
>
> I try to configure other mail accounts in the PDA (gmail, Yahoo..) and there
> is no problem at all (I can receive and send).
> Any Idea?

You use saslauthd and/or crypted passwords.

> P.S. I can post the config files if you want

Yes, that's a good idea.

prick

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