Package: postfix Version: 2.2.4-1.0.1 Severity: important [Solution at bottom ...]
I checked other bugs shown by reportbug. Examples:- 273426 303523 306577 147541 ... All are talking about SASL problems wherein postfix is the SASL SERVER or something about mysql etc... My problem is that I am using postfix on debian to connect to my ISP (i.e, postfix is a SASL client). 154207 is about a configuration issue (not install issue) for a postfix-sasl-client-mode operation. 252837 has identical problem, but its reports the nature of the problem very narrowly... I put in XTRA INFO for that bug report. 265375 is a great report on same problem, but with one gotcha :- I didn't know I needed that libsasl2-modules, and that was lost in the long list of suggested modules. ========================== postfix-sasl /or/ postfix-tls packages were perfect from end-user perspective. <I install postfix, and now I need to add sasl to it to connect to my ISP.> So I will naturally look for postfix-sasl package to install. Please bring back the postfix-sasl or postfix-tls package, ... (which CURRENTLY should be nothing other than a link to the libsasl2-modules) In my current install postfix-tls is missing in the list of packages. (yes I did an apt-get update) #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20051212)]/ etch contrib main deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main non-free contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free ============== MANUAL SOLUTION ============== root# apt-get install libsasl2-modules You will otherwise get error messages like [no worthy mechs found] :- postfix/smtp[25991]: maps_find: smtp_sasl_passwd: hash:/etc/postfix/saslpass (0,100): outgoing.verizon.net = sarma:rahasya1 postfix/smtp[25991]: smtp_sasl_passwd_lookup: host 'outgoing.verizon.net' user 'sarma' pass 'rahasya1' postfix/smtp[25991]: starting new SASL client postfix/smtp[25991]: name_mask: noanonymous postfix/smtp[25991]: smtp_sasl_authenticate: outgoing.verizon.net[206.46. 232.12]: SASL mechanisms LOGIN postfix/smtp[25991]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found Then the simple empty option (in main.cf) will work!!!! smtp_sasl_security_options = -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages postfix depends on: ii adduser 3.80 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.66 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libdb4.2 4.2.52-23 Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [ ii libsasl2 2.1.19-1.7 Authentication abstraction library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8a-3 SSL shared libraries ii netbase 4.23 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages postfix recommends: ii mailx [mail-read 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent pn resolvconf <none> (no description available) -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]