On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:46:51PM +0000, Barry Samuels wrote: > I have tried twice before to set up SASL authentication for Postfix and > failed to get it working both times. I am now trying a third time. > > I have three remote mail servers to which I can send outgoing mail. I > use Balsa as a mail client and, as a test, I set the value of the > Remote Server, in the Balsa settings, to each of the three mail servers > in turn together with the appropriate values for username and password. > I sent an email using each setting and they all arrived. This shows > that my username/password combinations are correct for each of the > remote servers. > > I then created an /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd file and transferred the > values for all three servers in the form: > > server.name username:password It's been a while since I set this up, but I have user@example.com:password even for hosts that do not require the full email as username. > I then ran postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd. > > So far so good. > > Before I go any further I'd like to check the format of the sasl_passwd > file. I have seen the form shown above on various howtos after > searching on the Internet but I have also seen them where the server is > encased in square brackets - [server.name]. > > Are those brackets required? It might speed up things a bit because it prevents MX lookups. You shouldn't use them unless you have troubles. > Having got an answer to that question I'll carry on with the SASL setup > and will probably be back with further questions. Try this first: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Mail_-_sending Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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