SMTP not autenticating after Ubuntu and ISPCONFIG upgrade

[Barryvdw]

Hi, my ubuntu server was runnign perfect with various email domains hosted on it. After I did an Ubunto upgrade from 10.4 to 10.11 and also upgraded to the latest version of ispconfig, my clients cant autenticate to make use of the smtp server. Any suggestions... im a total noobie !

[till]

Please check your mail log for errors. If you get a sasl error, see here:

http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-11....nism-available

[Barryvdw]

I reverted back to snapshot of previous version. What would be best way to upgrade and have smtp working ?

[till]

Reverting the upgrade was not required as you did nothing wrong. Just follow the information described in the link I posted above after the upgrade.

[Barryvdw]

Hi i changed the "/etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf" file as per the post. But still no success.

Here is error:

Apr 25 17:12:44 server1 postfix/smtpd[27933]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

Here is my file:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login pam
allow_plaintext: true
auxprop_plugin: sql
sql_engine: mysql
sql_hostnames: 127.0.0.1
sql_user: ispconfig
sql_passwd: <password>
sql_database: dbispconfig
sql_select: select password from mail_user where login = '%u@%r'

[falko]

Can you post your /etc/default/saslauthd file?

[Barryvdw]

After I just ignored the issue for the weekend, and just did not touch anything the server was working fine this morning once I rebooted.... go figures !