On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 06:39:23PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
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The official documentation for how to do this would appear to be at
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl_enable
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> I'd prefer to have SASL SMTP AUTH working instead of relying on PbS.
> Essentially, this means placing my ISP username and password in
> /etc/posfix/sasl_passwd:
^typo?
>
> [smtp.nucleus.com]:366 keeling:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Did you run "postmap /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd" after editing this file?
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> then adding:
>
> smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
> smtp_sasl_security_options =
According to the above URL, you also need "relayhost =
[smtp.nucleus.com]:366". That is, exactly the same as the first field in
your file above.
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> to /etc/postfix/main.cf, followed by:
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> postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
> postfix reload
>
> and (for the heck of it):
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> /etc/init.d/postfix restart
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> It had no effect. Changing the crontab fetchmail wrapper interval
> back to 5 min. lets it work, but I'd rather smtpd not be dependent on
> how often a user cronjob runs. What am I missing, or how do I get
> SASL SMTP AUTH working? BTW, I'm trying to get this question to
> postfix-users, but that's been somewhat difficult with a broken mail
> system (though I am now gaining on it).
What does postfix log to /var/log/mail.log? Any errors?
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