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Re: Adding SASL to existing Postfix installation on FreeBSD

From: Mark Goodge (markgood-stuff.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2008 - 07:30:44 CDT


Wietse Venema wrote:
> Mark Goodge:
> [FreeBSD ports stuff]
>> However, when I start Postfix, I get these errors in maillog:
>>
>> warning: smtpd_sasl_auth_enable is true, but SASL support is not compiled in
>
> Then the FreeBSD ports stuff is broken.

That's what I suspected.

> If you look in the Postfix conf/makedefs.out file, you will probably
> find that they failed to include a line that says -DUSE_SASL_AUTH.

Spot on.

> To work around this, build with Cyrus SASL support even though
> you will never use it, and configure Dovecot in main.cf.

Actually, I solved the problem by updating to the current version in
ports, so the bug has obviously been fixed since the original install on
this machine. But thanks for the pointer, that was exactly what I needed.

Mark
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