From my reading of what you’re doing, you’re wanting postfix to pass auth queries to dovecot, and if dovecot says ok, you allow somebody to send authenticated mail.
When you upgraded dovecot, did you also upgrade postfix? There may be some additional (or changed) arguments that go with either a newer version of postfix or dovecot. Depending on your system, you may need to build postfix with dovecot support to be able to set the smtp_sasl_type. > On Feb 18, 2015, at 5:44 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2015, David wrote: > >> What you need is to set your configs to use a smarthost. My searches >> turned up very few results, but I did find this one that seems to what you >> need with all the steps required. >> >> <http://xmodulo.com/configure-mail-server-postfix-dovecot.html> >> >> Hopefully this will get you going in the right direction. > > David, > > Thank you. The one thread on this subject that I found on a web forum > mentioned something about a smarthost. But, Wietse wrote that dovecot does > not authenticate against a remote server. > > While dovecot seems to be preferred to cyrus in most networks, it > apparently will not work for me unless, or until, I can use smtp directly > and with relaying. I first set up postfix here in 1998 and have used it with > cyrus-sasl since then. Now that I'm the only one sending and receiving mail > here (the other user does gmail, but that local mailbox collects spam) it > probably does not matter. > > So, I'll remove dovecot and not spend more time looking for a more elegant > solution that probably makes no difference here. > > The one remaining issue, beyond my knowledge to fix despite my looking at > both source code and the SlackBuild script, is why one line in > /usr/libexec/postfix/post-install has an unquoted variable, $path, on line > 504 with each upgrade since 2.11.2. I fix that manually, but it would be > nice to see that 'feature' fixed. > > Much appreciated, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ <http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/> Making life more interesting for people since 1977 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
