[TriLUG] sasl problem

[Kevin Otte]

Jim Wright wrote:
> After a recent reboot of the platform server that my VPS resides on,
> SMTP authentication stopped working.

> -snip-

> This is CentOS 3.  BTW, I also downloaded and compiled
> the latest version of sasl, and used the saslauthd/testsaslauthd that
> came with that, but with the same results.

When I was having this problem on my Debian box, it was due to the
saslauthd socket not being accessible inside the mail server chroot.  I
had to bind mount the saslauthd directory into the chroot.  Makes for
kind of ugly output from "mount", but gets the job done.

-- Kevin