Re: smtp auth

[Olaf Dietsche <olaf+list.debian-security@olafdietsche.de>]

"Arnold J. Fischer" <arnold-johannes.fischer@epost.de> writes:

> I'm trying to set up my dial-up system for mail relaying via mx.freenet.de 
> and they are using smtp-auth to accept every mail from someone who has an 
> email-account on their system. I read a couple of articles about the 
> configuration of postfix and set up /etc/postfix/main.cf with all mentioned 
> parameters and options. Postfix is seat up to reconfigure via the pon/poff 
> scripts.
>
> I have no idea why, but when I'm examing the mail-relay with
> 	telnet mx.freenet.de 25
> and an 
> 	EHLO linux.example.com
> it seems to me, as in the log file excerpt that they are using smtp-auth. But 
> I the only thing I'm seeing is "No mechs available" and no connection. 
>
> The box is a Debian 3.0r1.
> The attachment is a piece of from /var/log/mail.log 
>
> Any ideas?!

I don't know about postfix, but with sendmail I had a similar
message. It went away after installing libsasl-digestmd5-plain and/or
libsasl-modules-plain.

Regards, Olaf.