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Hello,

I spent the last few days trying to setup Postfix with SASLDB to send emails from my application over SMTP on Ubuntu Server 15.04. I searched, read and tested a lot about it but I can't get it to work. The Postfix and the mail servers are new to me so I hope someone can help me.

The last thing I tried is the following:

  1. Got a clean install of Ubuntu Server 15.04 x64.

  2. Run this script to install and configure Postfix, SASL AUTH: https://gist.github.com/richarddong/2634350

  3. Fix SASLAUTHD to work with chrooted Postfix by this (3. and 4. paragraphs): https://github.com/webmin/webmin/issues/58#issuecomment-22985720

    To fix connect() : No such file or directory error by the testsaslauthd command.

  4. I created an user with saslpasswd2 -c -u example.com username.

    Verified it successfully with sasldblistusers2, then tested it with:

    • testsaslauthd -u username@example.com -p password

    • testsaslauthd -u username -p password -r example.com

    • testsaslauthd -u username@example.com -p password -s smtp

    • testsaslauthd -u username -p password -r example.com -s smtp

    • testsaslauthd -u username -p password

    But all of these returned with: 0: NO "authentication failed".

    It accepted only the root user and password, like testsaslauthd -u root -p password.

  5. I checked the configuration and found out it's not using the SASLDB, so I followed this: https://serverfault.com/a/547851/317421

    After the SASL, Postfix configuration the results were the same as I wrote above.

    I tried the root user with telnet localhost 25, connected, then AUTH PLAIN base64string, where base64string generated by:

    perl -MMIME::Base64 -e 'print encode_base64("\000root\000password");'

    But returned with 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure.

This is where I'm now.

Of course I restarted Postfix and SASLAUTHD between these steps.

I tried rebooting the system too but nothing changed.

If someone would be so kind and help me to setup this or got a script for this that would be great!

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Tamas Szoke
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If anyone got the same error this maybe save you from hours of searching.

In order to use sasldb you need to change the MECHANISMS="pam" line to MECHANISMS="sasldb" in the file /etc/default/saslauthd, that was what I missed.

Then restart the saslauthd and the postfix, and it works with the configuration above.

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