[Dovecot] Postfix and Dovecot SASL authentication error

[Robert Schetterer]

Pascal Volk schrieb:
> Am 23.08.2008 16:00 schrieb sharad kanekar:
>> ear All,
>>             I configured Postfix 2.3.3-2 on CentOS 5.2 using SASL Dovecot
>> authentication put I am facing the problem to receive mails . My postconf -n
>> result is:
>> [root at mails ~]# postconf -n
>> …
>> smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
>> smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
>> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
> 
> Looks good.
> 
>> And my /var/log/maillog is:
>> Aug 23 19:01:03 mails dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.rc15 starting up
>> Aug 23 19:01:55 mails postfix/smtpd[3472]: warning: SASL: Connect to
>> private/auth failed: No such file or directory
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 
>> And our server 's  fetchmail -vvv log is:
>> …
> Not so interesting while your system is not proper setup yet. ;-)
> 
> You have forgot to send the output from `dovecot -n`. But before doing
> so, please read http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL.
> Compare your dovecot.conf with the example dovecot.conf excerpt.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Pascal
> 

i recommend to upgrade first postfix to current stable
2.5.4 for security and other reasons, and i am not sure dovecot auth was 
allready  working in 2.3.3
after that follow
http://wiki.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
be sure not to conflict with a chroot setup
in Postfix as its default i.e in ubuntu hardy
then everthing should work like charme

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MfG Robert Schetterer

Germany/Munich/Bavaria