Postfix and Dovecot SASL - wiki update

Dan Langille dan at langille.org
Thu Jan 1 04:51:44 UTC 2015


On Dec 31, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Patrick Domack <patrickdk at patrickdk.com> wrote:
> 
> Disabling chroot doesn't fix the issue, it just worked around it.

Oh….

> Aparently your chroot is not configured correctly, likely using debian based system, and your resolv.conf in the chroot is not updated correctly.

Using FreeBSD here, not Debian.

I have no chroot configured for Postfix at all.  The wiki page does not clearly mention this requirement.  

> Quoting Dan Langille <dan at langille.org>:
> 
>> I wanted to mention I updated the Postfix and Dovecot SASL wiki entry yesterday.
>> 
>>   http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
>> 
>> The entry:
>> 
>> submission inet n - - - - smtpd
>> 
>> was incorrect. It should be:
>> 
>> submission inet n - n - - smtpd
>> 
>> By specifying n for chroot, it ensures that DNS lookups can occur. Otherwise, if you are using reject_unknown_recipient_domain
>> the following error will occur: Recipient address rejected: Domain not found
>> 
>> Hope that helps.
>>>> Dan Langille
>> http://langille.org/

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Dan Langille
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