On 26/05/2010 20:32, Brandon Vargo wrote: > I hope the above helps. >
Thank you very much... that was very informative. Unfortunately, I now discover I fibbed when I said I had SASL auth set up - I only thought I had... When I correctly configure thunderbird, I get the following postfix messages in the log: > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: connect from > ur.shic.co.uk[10.0.1.253] > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: Could not open /etc/sasl2/sasldb2: gdbm_errno=5 > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: Could not open /etc/sasl2/sasldb2: gdbm_errno=5 > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: no secret in database > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: > ur.shic.co.uk[10.0.1.253]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed: > authentication failure > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: NTLM server step 1 > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: client flags: ffff8207 > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: NTLM server step 2 > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: client user: myusername > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: Could not open /etc/sasl2/sasldb2: gdbm_errno=5 > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: Could not open /etc/sasl2/sasldb2: gdbm_errno=5 > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: no secret in database > May 27 17:06:20 ken postfix/smtpd[19973]: warning: > ur.shic.co.uk[10.0.1.253]: SASL NTLM authentication failed: > authentication failure I'm sure I'm doing something silly - because googling the first warning just gives me this bug <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=299390>, which doesn't seem to fit. I have this installed: > $ eix mail-mta/postfix > [I] mail-mta/postfix > Available versions: 2.6.5 ~2.6.6 {cdb dovecot-sasl hardened ipv6 > ldap mbox mysql nis pam postgres sasl selinux ssl vda} > Installed versions: 2.6.5(09:08:29 05/27/10)(ipv6 pam sasl ssl > -cdb -dovecot-sasl -hardened -ldap -mbox -mysql -nis -postgres > -selinux -vda) > Homepage: http://www.postfix.org/ > Description: A fast and secure drop-in replacement for > sendmail. If I alter thunderbird to not use secure authentication, I get the following instead. > May 27 17:14:26 ken postfix/smtpd[20115]: connect from > ur.shic.co.uk[10.0.1.253] > May 27 17:14:26 ken postfix/smtpd[20115]: warning: SASL authentication > problem: unknown password verifier > May 27 17:14:26 ken postfix/smtpd[20115]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: Password verification failed > May 27 17:14:26 ken postfix/smtpd[20115]: warning: > ur.shic.co.uk[10.0.1.253]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: no > mechanism available > May 27 17:14:26 ken postfix/smtpd[20115]: warning: SASL authentication > problem: unknown password verifier > May 27 17:14:26 ken postfix/smtpd[20115]: warning: > ur.shic.co.uk[10.0.1.253]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: no > mechanism available Which seems quite strange. My /etc/sasl2/smtpd.conf is the default for gentoo - i.e. it contains the single config line: > pwcheck_method:pam I don't care if I use PAM or something else - as long as it lets me authenticate. In the medium term, it would be best if neither IMAP nor SMTP passwords had any relation to my system password (not that I allow remote logins unsing it) - but, for the time being, I just want it to let me authenticate and send from my phone. By any chance can anyone give me any further clues?
