Re: postfix relay smtp authentication
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On 12/05/06 18:55, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:13:26AM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver
>> relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP.
>>
>> However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication.
>>
>
> Here is what I have done when I had an ISP that required SMTP AUTH:
>
> # cat /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
> upstream.mail.exchange user@isp.tld:password
Can you have multiple entries, one per user?
> # grep -r sasl_passwd /etc/postfix/
> /etc/postfix/main.cf:smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
>
> Then, make sure to run:
>
> # postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
>
> This should leave you with a file called /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd.db
> which postfix which actually use as the source of the authentication
> information.
>
> Also, make sure that the sasl_passwd and sasl_passwd.db have mode 600
So the password would be in cleartext?
> and that you have libsasl2-modules installed.
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