[Dovecot] LDAP with Active Directory

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 14:30 -0400, B Hatoum wrote:
> Hello,
> I have successfully used dovecot 1.0 Beta 9 to do SASL authentication
> for postfix using the unix passwd/shadow files. 
>  
>  I need to authenticate with a windows 2003 server using active
> directory.  My system does not support PAM (I'm using slackware) so I
> cannot take that route.  I do not need to use dovecot for POP or IMAP
> at the present time and so I would like to avoid modifying my active
> directory schema.
>  
> Dovecot seems to be communicating with the active directory server,
> however it is sending an authentication failure to postfix: 
>  postfix/smtpd[24540]: warning: unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.X]: SASL LOGIN
> authentication failed: UxxvcmxxQ6

What is the client that tries to authenticate to it here?
 
> I don't see any messages in the log from dovecot.

Set auth_debug=yes and check again. I'm not sure why Postfix would give
that weird looking error message..

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