I am building a mail server using Postfix, and set up the authentication to check against a database set-up using Postfixadmin.
I can authenticate via Courier IMAP okay, as it can authenticate against the hashed password properly, but I am suspecting that my SASL + PAM-MySQL SMTP authentication mechanism cannot.
I am getting these errors in /var/log/mail.log:
pam_unix(smtp:auth): check pass; us
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 11.04)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that
are in a MySQL database.
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 15 x86_64)
This document describes how to install a Postfix mail server that is
based on virtual users and domains, i.e. users and domains that are in a
MySQL database.
I am trying to setup postfix, courier-imap and mariadb for a local mail server for a purchased domain. machin is archlinux. so far, I have 1 user account set up for the mail. I am able to send out messages from this account by telnetting into localhost port 25.
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Ubuntu 10.04)
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Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Fedora 12 x86_64)
I have been following the tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Postfix for installing Postfix on ubuntu.
Im stuck at the Authenication section of the tutorial where you change paths to live in the false root, if you look at the link above I have a file (/etc/default/saslauthd) which is pretty much the same as the one from the tutorial.
saslauthd
# This needs to be uncommented before sasl
Virtual Users And Domains With Postfix, Courier, MySQL And SquirrelMail (Mandriva 2010.0 x86_64)