From: brian (postfixlistsubtropolix.org)
Date: Sat Aug 11 2007 - 15:19:02 CDT

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Noel Jones wrote:
> At 03:01 PM 8/11/2007, brian wrote:
>
>> I'm having trouble getting SASL support working. The thing is, when i
>> first installed Postfix i did have it working. But i disabled it
>> because i decided not to use it. Now, it appears that i will require
>> it once more. However, working from the H&K Postfix book as a guide, i
>> haven't been able to undo my disabling of it.
>>
>> Here are (all?) relevant entries from postconf -n
>
> ...
>
>> smtpd_tls_auth_only = yes
>
>
> With the above, AUTH will only be offered after a TLS session is
> started. This setting is used to protect plain-text passwords. You can
> remove it for testing, but generally is a good thing to have.
>
> Test your connection with openssl's s_client feature - sort of an
> encrypted telnet - instead of telnet.
> Something like:
>
> # openssl s_client -connect localhost:25 -starttls smtp
> should start an encrypted connection.
>

bingo--thanks for that! I'd completely forgotten that TLS was necessary
*up front*. Everything's fine.

brian

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