Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 00:12:27 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@nethead.se> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Postfix-sasl on FreeBSD will not authenticate Message-ID: <0970ea44-1438-171a-4f44-221c4f9facd4@nethead.se> In-Reply-To: <523ffb82f14da9944a5368f28eddecac.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <523ffb82f14da9944a5368f28eddecac.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On 07/03/18 22:39, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > On server A we have cyrus-imapd running with spiped listening on > TCP:143. On server B we have postfix-sasl-3.3.0 running with spiped > listening on TCP:143 linked to server A. > > On server A saslauthd is configured in rc.conf to use rimap to the > localhost: > > saslauthd_flags="-a rimap \ > -O localhost" # Use Remote IMAP to authenticat > > Postfix is configured to use saslauth to authenticate outgoing senders: > > smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes > smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = no > smtpd_sasl_exceptions_networks = > smtpd_sasl_local_domain = > smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd > smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous > smtpd_sasl_service = smtp > smtpd_sasl_tls_security_options = $smtpd_sasl_security_options > smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus > > > But I cannot find any such file named smtpd.conf which, according to > the Postfix documentation, should exist and should contain: > > pwcheck_method: saslauthd > mech_list: PLAIN > > It appears to me that postfix is directly looking in > /usr/local/etc/sasldb2.db itself and, finding no entries, failing to > authenticate. How do I tell postfix to use the saslauthd daemon > instead? > You must create the file yourself and adjust it to whatever mech you use, in our case it is saslauthd: cat /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login
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