Postfix SMTP Authentication - On The Secure Port Only - MECH question

[bendycode]

How do I change MECH values?


Sure enough, my authentication failed the test.

The article says: **If the authentication is not successful, you may have to change the MECH value in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd and /etc/init.d/saslauthd.

I don't have an /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd file, and I don't see what I need to change in /etc/init.d/saslauthd

saslauthd -V shows:

authentication mechanisms: sasldb getpwent kerberos5 pam rimap shadow ldap

I got to this point after following http://howtoforge.com/virtual-users-...ail-ubuntu8.04 , having everything work, except for SMTP to the server. My ISP blocks port 25, and ports 465 and 587 were not yet serving secure SMTP. That lead me to this howto.


Thanks in advance for your help!
-Steve-

[falko]

Which distribution are you using?

[bendycode]

Ubuntu 8.04.1

[falko]

What's in /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf?

[bendycode]

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login

[falko]

According to the tutorial it should look as follows:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: plain login
allow_plaintext: true
auxprop_plugin: mysql
sql_hostnames: 127.0.0.1
sql_user: mail_admin
sql_passwd: mail_admin_password
sql_database: mail
sql_select: select password from users where email = '%u'