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PostFix + MySQL, SMTP Auth Doesn't work??

I have PostFix, Courier, Squirrel, MySQL installed, everything is running great except SMTP Authentication. My webmail works, people can send email to me, i can send anywhere in the organization, and i can send from squirrel mail to any outside client. However, using Outlook or any other 3rd party desktop mail client, i get SMTP Relay denied error messages and such when sending through the account, even if i have "My SMTP Server requires authentication" checked. I'm using Gentoo with all the latest packages above.

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Nick

NickUA

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So i guess my question is how do i get Postfix to use the mysql username/password table to authenticate so i can send email?

Thanks.

pjedmond

I'm tempted to say that SMTP authentication is not the problem. The problem is that your configuration is setup to act as a relay for certain email addresses only. Probably the only addresses that it is accepting is from a domain such as test.com or if default is secure, then it will not relay anything until you configure the domains that the setup is supposed to support correctly.

Also, another possibility is that relaying is allowed from the localhost (as squirrelmail is working, and I suppose that it is running on the same server), therefore perhaps Postfix is only accepting emails from localhost and needs to be configured to accept from a few more ips?

Look at the mynetworks_style, and mynetworks entries in the /etc/postfix.conf file.

HTH:)

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troopern

More questions, or if my help is too strict.. just ask =)

Mark

You will need to add SASL2 to your configuration, and reconfigure Postfix to use it. Then, you will need to put your users in the MySQL database, and assign passwords. I have done this on a few different systems running on SuSE, but the premise is the same...

Did you biuld your own install of Postfix, or are you using a pre-compiled distribution?