Re: Postfix SASL Question

* Michael Nguyen <michaeln@twentyten.org>:
> I've been trying to follow a number of How-Tos to try to get Postfix 2.1.5
> and Cyrus SASL 2.1.20 working together for SMTP Auth + MySQL but haven't had
> much luck so far.

Please download and run "saslfinger -s" and send the output to the list:
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>

> Everytime I start Postfix, I get the following errors:
>
> postfix/smtpd[7150]: sql_select option missing
> postfix/smtpd[7150]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
>
> sql_select is definitely there, so I suspect that Postfix is simply looking
> in a different place for the smtpd.conf file. I tried turning up debugging
> by adding the -v to smtpd in master.cf, but the only SASL related line I get
> is:
>
> postfix/smtpd[7150]: smtpd_sasl_initialize: SASL config file is smtpd.conf
>
> Is there anyway for me to find out where Postfix is looking for this file?
> I placed the file in the two obvious places:
>
> /etc/postfix/sasl
> /usr/lib/sasl2

/usr/lib/sasl2 is the correct location on RH. Remove /etc/postfix/sasl.

p@rick

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SMTP AUTH howto:
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/>
SMTP AUTH debug utility:
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>