[Dovecot] Problem with Dovecot SASL in Postfix

[Timo Sirainen]

On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 10:52 -0500, Chris McMacken wrote:
> and to login through SASL I am trying to use the username
> chrism at example.com when I use the full email address like this to
> login like this I get this output into my postfix log:

Postfix's logs aren't very useful. Set auth_debug_passwords=yes in
dovecot.conf and look at Dovecot's logs.

> Jul 10 18:46:59 mail postfix/smtpd[57343]: connect from unknown[12.244.148.123]
> Jul 10 18:46:59 mail postfix/smtpd[57343]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from
> unknown[12.244.148.123]: 554 5.7.1 <chrism at gmail.com>: Relay access
> denied; from=<chrism at example.com> to=<chrism at gmail.com> proto=ESMTP
> helo=<[192.168.1.14]>
> Jul 10 18:47:00 mail postfix/smtpd[57343]: disconnect from
> unknown[12.244.148.123]
..
> Jul 10 18:50:36 mail postfix/smtpd[57356]: connect from unknown[12.244.148.123]
> Jul 10 18:50:38 mail postfix/smtpd[57356]: warning:
> unknown[12.244.148.123]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed:
> PDI3NjU4MTE4NDExMTQzN0BtYWlsPg==

If the first session really got authenticated successfully (auth_debug
shows that too), then it's a Postfix configuration problem.

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