From: Anne Wilson (cannewilsongooglemail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 19 2008 - 09:28:55 CDT

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On Wednesday 19 March 2008 14:01, mouss wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 19 March 2008 12:37, Noel Jones wrote:
> >> Careful reading of the postfix SASL_README will show that you
> >> are not supposed to set smtp_sasl_password_maps or any other
> >> smtp_sasl_* parameter. Remove those parameters from your
> >> main.cf and then follow the instructions.
> >> http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_dovecot
> >
> > I have been following that - most of it so far, I had already done.
> > However, when I get to testing the authentication with telnet, there is
> > obviously something wrong:
> >
> > telnet borg2.lydgate.lan 25
> > Trying 192.168.0.40...
> > Connected to borg2.lydgate.lan (192.168.0.40).
> > Escape character is '^]'.
> > 220 borg2 ESMTP Postfix
> > # and there it hangs until I press Enter, when I get:
>
> it doesn't hang. it is waiting for an smtp command. type:
> EHLO foo.example.com
>
Duh! Sorry about that.

I had a problem in that \0username\0password' | mmencode didn't work - I
assume that I was right in giving it '\0groupware\0passwd' | mmencode ? It
just returned a '> '. However, with regard to the telnet session, that ended
with

503 5.5.1 Error: authentication not enabled
>
> show output of 'postconf -n'.
>
postconf -n
alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases
alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
command_directory = /usr/sbin
config_directory = /etc/postfix
daemon_directory = /usr/libexec/postfix
delay_warning_time = 1
html_directory = no
mail_owner = postfix
mail_spool_directory = /var/spool/mail
mailbox_command = /usr/bin/procmail -Y
mailq_path = /usr/bin/mailq.postfix
manpage_directory = /usr/share/man
masquerade_domains = $mydomain
mydestination = $myhostname, localhost.$mydomain, $mydomain
mydomain = lydgate.lan
myhostname = borg2
mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24,127.0.0.0/8
myorigin = $mydomain
newaliases_path = /usr/bin/newaliases.postfix
queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
readme_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/README_FILES
sample_directory = /usr/share/doc/postfix-2.3.3/samples
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix
setgid_group = postdrop
smtp_host_lookup = dns, native
smtp_sasl_path = private/auth
smtp_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
transport_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/transport
unknown_local_recipient_reject_code = 550

> if there are other errors/warning in the logs, please show them as well.
>
Any specific log? I don't see anything relevant in maillog or messages.

Anne

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