Re: Postfix and SMTP-AUTH once again

[Richard Stevens <list@richardstevens.de>]

Hi,

I'm trying to set up SMTP-Auth with postfix. The requirement is that System 
users can send mail independent of their connection to the internet so 
smtp-after pop or smtp-auth would be solutions. I'd prefer smtp-auth though.

I'm using debian testing and installed postfix and postfix-tls. I searched the 
net and tried just about any howto and any suggestion I could find but it 
just doesn't work. 

If I enable sasl auth in postfix (main.cf), I always get:

postfix/smtpd[7306]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
postfix/master[579]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd pid 7306 exit 
status 1
postfix/master[579]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- 
throttling

I have an smtpd.conf in /usr/lib/sasl and /etc/postfix/sasl that specifies an 
authentication method. It seems though that those files are not even 
evaluated since I can put just about anything there without it making any 
difference. My postfix setup ist *not* chrooted for now. 

Is there anyone out there who has managed to get those two to work with debian 
testing? Since I can't activate sasl at all with postfix I'm beginning to 
wonder that the packages might be broken. 

I'd really appreciate any hint on how to further track down the problem or a 
solution on how to get those two to work. Does anyone know how to strace the 
smtpd process? Maybe the conf file just needs a different name.

Thanks a lot,

Richard