Re: [SLUG] New Earthlink SMTP Procedures

From: Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com)
Date: Mon Sep 13 2004 - 22:04:09 EDT


On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:03:17AM -0400, Levi Bard wrote:

> In /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
>
> In /etc/postfix/sasl_passwd, you need an entry like:
> earthlink.net paulf:paulfspasswd
>
> And then don't forget to hash sasl_passwd:
> postmap hash:sasl_passwd
>
> One thing I'm not sure about - I don't know if, in sasl_passwd, you
> need earthlink.net as the hostname (since your mail's being routed
> that way), or if you need to specify a wildcard instead to cover all
> destinations.
>
> Also, did you get sasl libraries in addition to postfix-tls? I have:
> ii libsasl-digest 1.5.27-3 DIGEST-MD5 module for SASL
> ii libsasl-gssapi 1.5.24-15 Pluggable Authentication Modules for SASL
> ii libsasl-module 1.5.27-3 Basic Pluggable Authentication
> Modules for SASL
> ii libsasl2 2.1.2-2 Authentication abstraction library.
> ii libsasl7 1.5.27-3 Authentication abstraction library.

I don't have all these libraries because apt-get didn't say I needed
them. I do have libsasl2 and libssl among others. Otherwise, my setup is
as you indicated. I need to try it again and note the error message.
Google.

Paul
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