On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 02:52:54PM +0100, forumer@smartmobili.com wrote:
I am trying to configure dovecot/postfix with virtual users and sasl auth but there are so many tutorials with mistakes and subtle differences that at the end I am lost.
All the more reason to stick to each project's official documentation. The sad reality is that most such tutorials you will find are written by people who should not be writing documentation.
So I am running Ubuntu server 11.04 (natty) and when I installed my server I had followed the following guide http://workaround.org/ispmail/etch
One of the better ones; I know the author, and he is reasonably competent. But are you sure you need and "ISP-style" mail server? Perhaps something simpler makes sense to begin with.
http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html
Then I have migrated to dovecot 2.1 and now I am trying to allow authenticated user to use my smtp server because for the moment I get : Relay access denied
A Postfix issue, or possibly somewhat on topic here if you are using Dovecot SASL. You do not seem to know whether you are or not. This might be because you are mixing and confusing different tutorials without understanding what they are doing and why.
Here is my configuration (first is file hierarchy followed by file contents) and I would like to know what I need to do to allow authenticated user send email.
http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#server_dovecot http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
In this tutorial http://library.linode.com/email/postfix/dovecot-mysql-ubuntu-10.04-lucid#sph...
I have not reviewed this one, but the anchor title is patently absurd. If you are using Postfix and Dovecot, there is NEVER any reason to use Cyrus SASL's saslauthd. Consider that one useless.
The rest of this is not worth answering. You went off on a Cyrus tangent which is pointless (and never on topic for this list!) Start over with a better understanding of what you need.
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