Re: postfix cannot connect to saslauthd

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:06:06 +0800, H Xu wrote:

> I've just configured a smtp server on Debian 6.0.1, but the smtp auth
> always fails. Here is the log from mail.log:
> 
> Apr 29 05:05:49 hostname postfix/smtpd[13269]: warning: SASL
> authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file
> or directory

(...)

If Postfix is run under a jail (chrooted) saslauth mux socket should be 
under a path where postfix can reach it (that's usually something under "/
var/spool/postfix/*".
 
> smtpd is running chrooted.

(...)

Then carefully read the docs and readme files to setup saslauth in that 
way.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón