[TriLUG] Setting up a secure mail server with Postfix (SMTP AUTH), Dovecot, Squirrelmail, etc

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote:

> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
> > * Much more information on this topic here; don't be fooled by the strange
> >   URL, this is an excellent HOWTO:
> > 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=94312
> 
> GAAAAH!
> 
> Darn it, Jeremy, now I have to kill you.
> 
> You send this *one day* after I gave up on getting SASL to work with 
> postfix on redhat 9 and implemented sendmail on our new mail server.  :P
> 
> I don't know how RH's RPMs differ from the official unofficial RPMs for 
> postfix, but if that's the difference to make things work, I'm now 
> "officially" pulling my hair out and screaming at the monitor.  =)

Heh.  It turns out it was Joseph Tate who actually determined the 
brokenness of the Red Hat RPMs; I think he posted this a while back.  The 
problem is that different components were using differing versions of 
SASL, and the two versions are incompatible.  Joseph convinced John Dennis 
at Red Hat of this and the result was fixed RPMs in Rawhide... thanks Joe.

I was pulling my hair out about this quite a bit, another thing that was 
real handy, from the above bugzilla attachment text, was the hint on how 
to get saslauthd to log more verbosely.  Chris Ricker and John Dennis 
really did a good job in that document.

--Jeremy 

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