Re: [webmin-l] postfix + dovecot SASL auth

[Eagle L. C. S. <ser...@ea...>]

That's what I was trying to do, postfix with sasl authentication through 
dovecot.  I want to make sure people can't send spam through my server.  
As it is right now, mail can be sent out from any address on my port 25 
without authentication.  I upgraded dovecot and this config does work 
now.  The latest dovecot in the CentOS repositories are still 0.99 so I 
have to download the package from a link on the dovecot site and install it.

Jeff

Jamie Cameron wrote:
> On 14/Mar/2008 07:38 Eagle Link Customer Service wrote ..
>   
>> ok, so I think I've got postfix set up properly, in the SASL_README file 
>> for postfix, the section for setting up dovecot, it says to add the 
>> following to the dovecot.conf file.
>>
>>         auth default {
>>           mechanisms = plain login
>>           passdb pam {
>>           }
>>           userdb passwd {
>>           }
>>           socket listen {
>>             client {
>>               path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
>>               mode = 0660
>>               user = postfix
>>               group = postfix
>>             }
>>           }
>>         }
>>
>>
>> So I added this to the config, and I get an error when starting dovecot, 
>> "Error in configuration file /etc/dovecot.conf line 498: Expecting '='" 
>> which refers to the line with "auth default {" in my conf file.  Any 
>> ideas?  Could it be i need to update dovecot to a newer version?  For 
>> now I have commented this out so that I can still receive mail.
>>     
>
> Are you sure you want to setup dovecot to use SASL? In my experience, it isn't needed ..
> the default config that uses PAM or shadow file authentication works fine. SASL is
> only needed for SMTP authentication with Postfix.
>
>  - Jamie
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