Authenticated SMTP

[bladex]

Does anyone know of any other methods to do authenticated SMTP with Postfix, other than SASL?

thanks!

Rob

[www.netmart.com.au]

Does anyone know of any other methods to do authenticated SMTP with Postfix, other than SASL?

thanks!

Rob



Hey Rob,

I have a good tutorial on hand for Postfix and SMTP. Check it out mate, there's some good tutorials on this site to keep you busy. These tutorials are very clear and easy to understand.

http://workaround.org

Enjoy!

[carl]

There is another way I know of, and that is using the Postfix+Dovecot-Auth patch here: http://dovecot.org/patches/postfix/

I haven't tried it, though. If you do, I would be interested to know how it went.

[retep]

btw, sasl authentication - which is a common smtp auth setup - is covered in a few howtos:
http://www.google.com/search?q=postfix+sasl+auth&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

I mention this because a few people recently have been setting up postfix and ending up here.

[bladex]

I've had Postfix and SASL running on my first vps for awhile, it works fine. It's just a lot of code and always feels sort of clunky.

I tried to build the dovecot stuff, but the patch is for Postfix 2.1.2 (old) and doesn't build with 2.1.5 ...

Anyway, I went ahead with SASL2 ... thanks for the info.

Rob

[retep]

This week has been 'the week of postfix'. We seem to have had a number of support tickets from people setting it up. And it has had a couple of articles on it over at linux.com

A quick howto, just while this is fresh in my head from doing a setup:

apt-get install postfix
Append this to /etc/postfix/main.cf:


smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes
smtpd_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated,
permit_mynetworks,
reject_unauth_destination



# bye-bye
chkconfig --del sendmail
/etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail stop
#hello
chkconfig --level 3 postfix on
/etc/rc.d/init.d/postfix start

[alexander]

Yeah, I was trying to setup Postfix+Mysql+Courier-IMAP, but think had a cock up with courier-imap - did not work out for me, though I built it from SRC into RPM using checkinstall and also tried method described in courier-imap web-site (think its simple rpmbuild -ta courier-imap***.tar.bz2)