Postfix-tls and client smtp auth

[David Rasch]

Tony et al,

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 07:47:00AM +0100, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> David,
> 
> On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 21:28 -0400, David Rasch wrote:
> 
> > I'm running (K)Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary and I've been attempting to get my
> > postfix installation to authenticate with my outgoing smtp server so
> > that it might send me email from wherever my laptop is connected.
> > 
> > In any case, I've installed the following packages:
> > 
> > postfix-tls
> > libsasl2
> > libsasl2-modules (which contains both the PLAIN and DIGEST MD5
> > 	authentication modules I'm used to installing in debian as
> > 	separate packages)
> > 
> > I've added the following tweaked my postfix configuration as follows...
> > 
> > /etc/postfix/main.cf:
> > smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> > smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
> > smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter = plain, login
> 
> I've just doing this on my system and got it to work. The lines in my
> main.cf look like this:
> 
> #
> # SASL Support for servers
> smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
> smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
> smtp_sasl_security_options =

Getting rid of the last line I have (smtp_sasl_mechanism_filter), and
adding the empty "security_options" line fixed it.  Many thanks for the
help.

-David
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