[inversecow]

Hello,

I have noticed similar issues with the above mentioned How-to. I have verified all of the conf. files mentioned in the How-to itself, and have been left at a loss. The only error is "Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: (failed)." No entry is made to the mail log (/var/log/mail.log).

That being said, I happened to enter the following in the console and SASL started no problem:

sudo /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd -a pam

The only thing I can think of is this. Some how during the process of activation, the startup script does not make reference to the "default settings" file (/etc/default/saslauthd), thus it does not pull the needed info to properly execute.

I am happy to get SASL to start, however I am baffled as to why it did not work as expected.