[Dovecot] unable to send mails via postfix/dovecot SASL

[Michal Szymanski]

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 06:27:23AM -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
> On 6/11/2009, Michal Szymanski (msz at astrouw.edu.pl) wrote:
> > (after a server upgrade I decided to change my sendmail/popper conf
> > to something more modern :)
> 
> Then why install a version that is well over a year old?
> 
> 1.1.16 is the current stable version, but 1.2 is at rc5 stage and
> release is imminent... I'd start with that.

Well, that was what the repositories for my CentOS 5.3 (Final) were
offering. I found the 1.1.16 RPM in atrpms (advertised as "testing
package" - strangely enough as it is "stable" fot RHEL/CentOS 4)
so I upgraded but did not help. I am not sure, however, if the settings
for "auth default" are now compatible with the (apparently new) way the
authentication is done now (auth, auth-worker).

The current 'dovecot -n' output below.

regards, Michal.

# 1.1.16: /etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5 x86_64 CentOS release 5.3 (Final) 
ssl_cert_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/certs/sirius.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/pki/dovecot/private/sirius.key
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
mail_location: mbox:~/Mail:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u
mmap_disable: yes
mail_executable(default): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/lib64/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/lib64/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail outlook-idle netscape-eoh
imap_client_workarounds(pop3): 
pop3_client_workarounds(default): 
pop3_client_workarounds(imap): 
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login
  debug: yes
  passdb:
    driver: pam
  userdb:
    driver: passwd
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode: 432
      user: postfix
      group: postfix

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