Hi all,
First of all I have a system running smoothly and very satisfied with it.
Now, I'm trying to enable SMTP authentication to be able to send emails when I'm not home using username and password to authenticate against the mail server.
I'm running fedora 12 i386 on a esxi VM with 2x cpu 3x Gb RAM
ASSP Version: 1.6.1.3(1.0.03)
Postfix Version: postfix-2.6.5-2.fc12.i686
Dovecot Version: dovecot-1.2.8-2.fc12.i686
ASSP has been there up and running for a while so I don't think this is the problem.
I've modified the postfix and dovecot config as per this page:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
Code:
#postconf -n
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
I'm able to reload both postfix and dovecot after the changes with no error.
However...
When I set:
use name and password
&
use secure authentication (as I want to use cram-md5) on Thunderbird, and I try to send an email I get this error
Code:
Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because the connection to SMTP server 10.10.10.10 was lost in the middle of the transaction. Try again or contact your network administrator.
where in the maillog on the server side:
Code:
Dec 30 18:53:53 vmcisono postfix/smtpd[15542]: connect from localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
Dec 30 18:53:53 vmcisono postfix/smtpd[15542]: warning: SASL: Connect to private/auth failed: Permission denied
Dec 30 18:53:53 vmcisono postfix/smtpd[15542]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Dec 30 18:53:54 vmcisono postfix/master[14333]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 15542 exit status 1
Dec 30 18:53:54 vmcisono postfix/master[14333]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
I've been looking in internet for a solution but no luck.
Any idea on how I can sort this out?
Cheers
rs232
