Email Clients cannot send mail

[iverson0881]

I just upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04 per the falko guide but I can't seem to send mail from any client, regardless if the password is correct or not. I suspect it's a saslauthd issue but I tried rerunning the steps from the 8.04 perfect server guide but I still have this problem.

Also saslauthd daemon doesn't seem to start correctly. I'm not 100% sure what's going on.

Any help would be great. Thanks in advance

[till]

Which error messages do you get in the mail.log when you start saslauthd and when you try to send a email?

[iverson0881]

here is what I get in auth.log

May  7 04:49:28 server sshd[7552]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/default/locale: No such file or directory
May  7 04:49:28 server sshd[7554]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user root by root(uid=0)
May  7 04:49:28 server sshd[7554]: pam_env(sshd:setcred): Unable to open env file: /etc/default/locale: No such file or directory
May  7 04:50:49 server saslauthd[5166]: server_exit     : master exited: 5166
May  7 04:50:57 server saslauthd[7597]: detach_tty      : master pid is: 7597
May  7 04:50:57 server saslauthd[7597]: ipc_init        : listening on socket: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
May  7 04:54:27 server saslauthd[7736]: detach_tty      : could not lock pid file /var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid: Resource temporarily unavailable
May  7 04:54:27 server saslauthd[7735]: detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
May  7 04:54:27 server saslauthd[7735]: detach_tty      : Another instance of saslauthd is currently running
May  7 04:54:31 server saslauthd[7746]: detach_tty      : could not lock pid file /var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid: Resource temporarily unavailable
May  7 04:54:31 server saslauthd[7745]: detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
May  7 04:54:31 server saslauthd[7745]: detach_tty      : Another instance of saslauthd is currently running
May  7 05:00:01 server CRON[8092]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May  7 05:00:01 server CRON[8092]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May  7 05:03:32 server saslauthd[8242]: detach_tty      : could not lock pid file /var/run/saslauthd/saslauthd.pid: Resource temporarily unavailable
May  7 05:03:32 server saslauthd[8241]: detach_tty      : Cannot start saslauthd
May  7 05:03:32 server saslauthd[8241]: detach_tty      : Another instance of saslauthd is currently running
May  7 05:03:40 server saslauthd[7597]: server_exit     : master exited: 7597
May  7 05:03:45 server saslauthd[8253]: detach_tty      : master pid is: 8253
May  7 05:03:45 server saslauthd[8253]: ipc_init        : listening on socket: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
May  7 05:09:01 server CRON[8444]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May  7 05:09:01 server CRON[8451]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
May  7 05:09:01 server CRON[8444]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root
May  7 05:09:01 server CRON[8451]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root

and in mail.log

May  7 05:06:24 server postfix/smtpd[8360]: warning: myip.net[000.000.000.000]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
May  7 05:06:23 server postfix/smtpd[8360]: warning: myip.net[000.000.000.000]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
May  7 05:06:24 server postfix/smtpd[8360]: warning: myip.net[000.000.000.000]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
May  7 05:06:23 server postfix/smtpd[8360]: warning: myip.net[000.000.000.000]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
May  7 05:06:20 server postfix/smtpd[8360]: warning: myip.net[000.000.000.000]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
May  7 05:06:20 server postfix/smtpd[8360]: warning: myip.net[000.000.000.000]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
May  7 05:06:16 server postfix/smtpd[8360]: warning: myip.net[000.000.000.000]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure

[iverson0881]

Okay I figured it out.

Basically my problem was that i was using a very old /etc/init.d/saslauthd script and it doesn't really listen to /etc/default/saslauthd. so basically switched out for the saslauthd.dpkg-dist file and everything now works.

This post seemed to guide me through what was going on: http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/arc...hp/t-2199.html

Since it wasn't obeying /etc/default/saslauthd it wasn't chrooted inside of postfix so it couldn't authenticate anyone since it can't read who to authenticate.