[I asked this in cmm, but see no help there yet. I'm trying to get this: http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/smtpauth/smtp_auth_mailservers.html
working on Debian Lenny.] ---------------------------------------- Background: I run fetchmail in a script wrapper called by my user crontab. Changing the interval at which the cronjob runs to 10 min. instead of every five minutes broke the implied "POP before SMTP" authorization. Apparently, my ISP's SMTP times out PbS authorization fairly quickly. 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: [smtp.nucleus.com]:366 keeling:XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX then adding: smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd smtp_sasl_security_options = to /etc/postfix/main.cf, followed by: postmap hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd postfix reload and (for the heck of it): /etc/init.d/postfix restart 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). Thanks. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101215013923.ga12...@nucleus.com