SMTP authentication setup

[Reindl Harald]

Am 21.10.2014 um 14:40 schrieb Brian:
> At my company we've had a longstanding problem of not being able to send
> email from devices outside of our internal network and any specific IP
> address that we open the relay to. As it turns out, SASL has never been
> set up. I need to set up SASL ASAP but none of the guides I've found
> seem to work.
> This is the latest guide I tried:
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
> I did everything on here minus the last part because it's on the same
> server.

don't pretend - "postconf -n" and "dovecot -n"

# dovecot
service auth {
   unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
   mode  = 0660
   user  = postfix
   group = postfix
  }
}

# postfix
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot
smtpd_sasl_path  = private/auth

> Also, instead of
> submission inet n - - - - smtpd
> I did:
> 127.0.0.1:1025 inet n - - - - smtpd

that is complete nonsense

* 1025 is not a standard port
* the port only listens on localhost
* no way to connect from outside

> After all is done, however, I'm unable to send any mail. Thunderbird
> just says sending message but doesn't send and I don't even get an
> error. I end up having to disable SASL again before I can send mail.

because most likely 1025 is not opened in the firewall and even if since 
you misconfigured the server it could not connect

> Dovecot version 2.0.9
> Postfix version 2.6.6
> CentOS 6
> I have Postfix, Dovecot, and ASSP on the same server

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