[SLL] postfix smtp auth (outbound) without SASL, without cyrus?

Glenn Stone technoshaman at liawol.org
Thu Aug 10 13:58:21 PDT 2006


On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 11:45:34AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>My laptop is on a Verizon FIOS network. Due to the dynamic IP some mail 
>servers block my mail.
>
>I have an server I can relay through using SMTP AUTH that is running Exim.
>
>I have tested using sylpheed-claws.
>
>I want postfix to send through it also.
>
>I used:
>
>smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
>smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd
>smtp_sasl_security_options =
>relayhost = my.mail.server
>
>But my postfix was not built with cyrus and I don't have any cyrus 
>installed. Postfix complains:

Everything I've seen in Google says you need *some* sort of SASL.  Both GNU
and Cyrus have them, according to Aptitude.  Often the plugin is packaged
separately, unless you're running Gentoo or something... 

More details, please?

-- Glenn



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