[BlueOnyx:25048] Re: Authenticated smarthost using Postfix

[Larry Smith]

On Tue July 27 2021 15:25, Colin Jack wrote:
> Hi Michael / Larry,
>
>     >   Pretty sure you need an "smtpd_sasl_type" line to go
>     > with what you have to tell postfix "how" to authenticate.
>     > Docs says options are listed with the postconf -A command.
>     > Don't have a BX postfix machine to check but most likely
>     > yours says dovecot.
>
>     That's a good point. I just checked on a 5210R:
>
>     [root at 5210r ~]# postconf -A
>     cyrus
>
>     So I guess Colin needs to set 'smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus'.
>
>     Using 'dovecot' instead is common, but we use Saslauth for SMTP on both
>     Sendmail and Postfix.
>
> Thanks for that but I already have that:
>
> smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes
> smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
> smtpd_sasl_type = cyrus
>
> Regards
>
> Colin

Then I believe you need to create the database file for authentication
with the saslpasswd2 command, not as a hash file db.

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net