SMTP auth on Debian
Oct. 16th, 2007 02:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylAfter having spent a while setting up Postfix on my NetBSD box, I decided, somewhat perversely, to move my mail services over to Debian on my slug.
The process of configuring the slug was generally pretty straight forward. All I did was install Postfix with
The only problem I experienced was, as always, with SMTP auth to my ISP's mail server. I checked the log and found that postfix was complaining about SASL: "
The process of configuring the slug was generally pretty straight forward. All I did was install Postfix with
apt-get, copy across the configuration files from my BSD box, modify main.cf to correct the locations of the various binaries — all extra packages installed on NetBSD go into the /usr/pkg directory — and tweak the start up scripts.The only problem I experienced was, as always, with SMTP auth to my ISP's mail server. I checked the log and found that postfix was complaining about SASL: "
warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found" It transpired that the problem was due to a missing package: libsasl2-modules is required when using SMTP auth with Postfix but isn't included in the standard bundle of dependencies. All I had to do was install the missing module and, presto chango, my mail server was peachy-kean and willing to handshake with my ISP.
