[SOLVED] SASL and MYSQ problem.....

[jecepede]

Aloha !


I have installed a small mailserver and it seems to work but ok.
The only slight problem I have is that I can't send my mail via authenticated smtp ?

I have SASL and/or (?) courier-authlib trying to talk to my mysqldatabase.

I strated folowing the instructions from http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/virt-mail-howto.xml but soon I realised I doid not want that so I switched to : http://high5.net/postfixadmin/

This seems to work OK.

I can make/delete/change users and mailaliasses that fully work. I also installed Squirrelmail and from there I can sent and recieve mail.....


Now the [BLEEP BLEEP] authenticated SMTP :

Ok, time for some errors :

[kashani]

I believe the problem might be that PostfixAdmin uses encrypted passwords unlike the Gentoo Virtual How-to. I recently built a Postfix Admin setup and here's how I set up SASL

First I changed cyrus-sasl to use Courier's authdaemon rather than talk to Mysql itself.

[jecepede]

Aloha !


Absolutely WONDERFULL ! I

I got my Cyrus-thingy to stop talking to the MySQL database and now it is trying to talk to the authdaemon.......

[kashani]

I think I forgot to mention a few things that I've probably taken for granted.

1. courier-authlib needs to be running and working.
I'm not sure how far you are in your setup, but since sasl is going to use Courier's authdaemon for auth, authdaemon needs to be running and working, Get pop3/imap to auth first. Once that works sasl should works as well.

2. package.use
When you do USE="blah -blahblah" at the commandline Gentoo doesn't preserve it going forward. So when there is an update to cyrus-sasl two months from now it'll be built with the old USE variables instead of the ones you want. You'll restart the daemons and your system will be broken at some in oportune time. You need to create /etc/portage/ and then create package.use for any settings you want to apply per package so that Gentoo will always use those variables on that package. Here's an example of mine.

[jecepede]

Aloha !


This is one of gthe things I like sooooooooooooo muxh about Gentoo, the ENORMOUS forum-pages...


I came across a small story about pathing SASL, look here for more detail : http://frost.ath.cx/software/cyrus-sasl-patches/

So I thought, the current SASLAUTHD doesn't have it, maybe if I modify the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS in the file /etc/make.conf

I then got version : 2.1.21-r1 instead of the "older" 2.1.20 version.
This version came with a MOUNTAIN of patches. After it installed I only hat to check my config file like so :

[jecepede]

Ho ho ho !

Thanx for helping me out :