From: Ralf Hildebrandt (Ralf.Hildebrandtcharite.de)
Date: Thu Oct 01 2009 - 08:10:56 CDT

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* Hagen Fürstenau <hfuerstenaugmx.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using dovecot for SASL authentication:
>
> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
> permit_mynetworks
> permit_sasl_authenticated
> reject_unauth_destination
> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
> smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth-client
>
> Now if for whatever reason dovecot is not running, smtpd will also
> refuse to work, complaining "fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms".

Indeed!

> I would much prefer it to fall back to "smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = no" in
> that case, so that mail for local recipients can still be received. Is
> this possible?

It's the one problem we're having here as well: When updating dovecot,
postfix won't work due to that...

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