Re: sarge, postfix and sasl problem

[Andrea Vettorello <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 05:09:52 +0200 (CEST), Jean-Yves Boisiaud
<jyb@basystemes.fr> wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I'm using Sarge with Postfix 2.1.4-5, SASL2 2.1.19-1.5 and
> kernel  2.4.27-1-686
> 
> When I do a telnet to the smtp server it exits immediatly, I have the log message :
> 
> Oct 21 04:59:27 proxy postfix/smtpd[16924]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
> 

[...]

> 
> pwcheck_method: auxprop
> mech_list: plain login
> 
> Any idea ?
> 

I don't recall if Debian defaults to use PAM with sasl, anyway, seems
you're missing the authentication backend, i mean, if sasl needs to
use the sasldb or PAM or other to store/check username and password. I
think you need to add a "auxprop_plugin:
the_plugin_name_you_intend_to_use" line in your
/etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf.


Andrea