* Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:43:09PM -0500, Travis wrote: > > Closer... now Thunderbird prompts for my password over and over, but I've > > set it properly. > > What's the meaning of: > > Oct 10 22:40:55 lexus postfix/smtpd[13983]: warning: SASL authentication > failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
It probably means that the user postfix is not in the group sasl. If that's the case it probably also means you should read the SASL Postfix documentation that comes with your distribution. There are more traps when you run a Debian based system e.g. chroot issues. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The Book of Postfix <http://www.postfix-book.com> saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH): <http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>
