Virtual Domains Squirrelmail Postfix Courier

[matiancai74]

Hello,
i have now managed to follow the entire tutorial and can call up Squirrelmail on my server, however, i am getting the error:
'Connection dropped by IMAP server'
Could someone please help me correct this?
many thanks
Matthew.

[Jaac]

Did you check if the password you set, is the same in all configuration files (10 in most cases)?
The tutorials use mail_admin_password which u have to replace with your own password.

Also you should post more details about your issue, which tutorial, which OS, and the contents of your mail.log and auth.log.

[matiancai74]

I followed Falko's virtual domains tutorial for Ubuntu 10.10. This is the content of Auth.log when I try to log in:

Jan 27 07:30:01 regents-pattaya CRON[14473]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Jan 27 07:30:01 regents-pattaya CRON[14473]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root.

That's it.
Mail.log shows this:

Jan 27 07:30:09 regents-pattaya postfix/smtp[14512]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter
Jan 27 07:30:10 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 14512 exit status 1
Jan 27 07:30:10 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
Jan 27 07:31:09 regents-pattaya imapd: Connection, ip=[::1]
Jan 27 07:31:09 regents-pattaya imapd: LOGIN FAILED, user=********, ip=[::1]
Jan 27 07:31:09 regents-pattaya imapd: authentication error: Input/output error
Jan 27 07:31:10 regents-pattaya postfix/smtp[14637]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter
Jan 27 07:31:11 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 14637 exit status 1
Jan 27 07:31:11 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
Jan 27 07:32:11 regents-pattaya postfix/smtp[14648]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter
Jan 27 07:32:12 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 14648 exit status 1
Jan 27 07:32:12 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling
Jan 27 07:33:12 regents-pattaya postfix/smtp[14676]: fatal: specify a password table via the `smtp_sasl_password_maps' configuration parameter
Jan 27 07:33:13 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: process /usr/lib/postfix/smtp pid 14676 exit status 1
Jan 27 07:33:13 regents-pattaya postfix/master[13307]: warning: /usr/lib/postfix/smtp: bad command startup -- throttling

Looks like I might have to config this smtp_sasl_password_maps parameter? Any idea how?
Thanks very much guys.

[matiancai74]

I have looked in /etc/postfix/main.cf and found no mention of the parameter smtp_sasl_password_maps.
Should it be added and how?
Thanks guys.

[matiancai74]

i tried:
postconf -e 'smtp_sasl_password_maps = /etc/postfix/sasl/smtp.conf'
but to no avail, it doesn't work. Any suggestions?

[falko]

Can you post your main.cf?

[brianwc]

Doesn't this error happen when you haven't sent the initial test email to the user? This happened to me before but I can't remember what fixed it. I think the earlier suggestion that you very carefully review all the config files for a mistaken password may also be the problem.