jason hirsh:
> I was getting some relay issues when my local IP changed so I realized or
> thought that perhaps my SASL wasn?t working
>
> I did a bunch of tweaking which is never good but when i switched
> my mail to port 587 i was able to once again send with no problem
And you were not satisfied that it worked...
> BUT when i did the telnet test froth postfix.org as follow
>
[smtp example trimmed]
> AUTH PLAIN base64 gibberish
> 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed:
>
> the base 64 encodes (\0user\@doman.com\0Password)
> I also tried (\0user\@doman\.com\0Password)
> I am running postfix 2.12-20140709 Dovecot version 1.2.17
I suspect that you erred while constructing the base64 text.
If you don't follow the examples with bash, printf, or perl
carefully, then it is unlikely to work.
Wietse
