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Re: Postfix-tls and plaintext passwords



Michael Meskes <meskes@debian.org> writes:
> I take it postfix-tls as client does not try plaintext passwords per
> default. According ot the docs this can be enabled by using
> 
> smtp_sasl_security_options =
> 
> in main.cf. But appearantly this does not work at all. As soon as my
> machine makes a connection to my ISPs mailserver postfix ends the
> connection since no AUTH is possible. The provider machine runs exim
> 3.22 and says AUTH PLAIN LOGIN.
> 
> Either I missed something, or this is a bug or at least some docs could
> be added.

Make sure that you have libsasl* loaded---if you don't have the plain
modules, *your* end of the connection won't be able to do plain.

Mike.


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