seeking sasl configuration example

shadrock uhuru niyalevi at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 21:37:33 UTC 2015


On 26/04/15 15:22, Edgar Pettijohn III wrote:
>
> On Apr 26, 2015, at 4:32 AM, shadrock uhuru wrote:
>
>> hi everyone
>> could someone show me there sasl configuration section in their
>> dovecot.conf,
>> i have postfix and dovecot setup for virtual users (no system users)
>> everything works fine including tls,
>> i have tried various examples off the web for sasl but they either have
>> obsolete parameters
>> or are for a setup with system users,
>> i would prefer to use dovecots sasl implementation.
>>
>> dovecot --version = 2.1.7
>>
>> cat dovecot.conf
>>
>> ######################
>> ######################
>>
>> disable_plaintext_auth = no
>> mail_privileged_group = mail
>>
>> log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log
>> # auth_verbose=yes
>> # auth_debug=yes
>> # auth_debug_passwords=yes
>> mail_debug=yes
>> # verbose_ssl=yes
>>
>> passdb {
>>  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>>  driver = sql
>> }
>> userdb {
>>  driver = prefetch
>> }
>> userdb {
>>  args = /etc/dovecot/dovecot-sql.conf
>>  driver = sql
>> }
>>
>>
>> protocols = "pop3 imap lmtp"
>>
>> protocol imap {
>>  mail_plugins = " autocreate"
>> }
>>
>> plugin {
>>  autocreate = Trash
>>  autocreate2 = Sent
>>  autocreate3 = junk
>>  autosubscribe = Trash
>>  autosubscribe2 = Sent
>>  autosubscribe3 = junk
>> }
>>
>> service auth {
>>  unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/auth {
>>    group = postfix
>>    mode = 0660
>>    user = postfix
>>  }
>> }
>>
>
> That should do it.  You just need to make sure postfix is set up
> correctly.
>
> http://wiki2.dovecot.org/HowTo/PostfixAndDovecotSASL
>
>>
>> service lmtp {
>>    unix_listener /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-lmtp {
>>    group = postfix
>>    mode = 0600
>>    user = postfix
>>    }
>> }
>> protocol lmtp {
>>    postmaster_address=postmaster at mydomain.com
>> <mailto:postmaster_address=postmaster at mydomain.com>
>>    hostname=niya.mydomain.com
>> }
>>
>> ssl_cert = </etc/ssl/certs/mailcert.pem
>> ssl_key = </etc/ssl/private/mail.key
>>
>> ######################
>> ######################
>>
>>
>> thanks
>> shadrock
>

many thank Edgar
sasl is working but i was testing the smtp port instead of submission
that sasl is setup for.


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