On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Nicholas Meyer wrote: > I'm trying to learn to set up a mail server, and am having difficulty > finding any definitive source on how to enable SMTP AUTH as it is > included with RedHat 8. If anybody has any suggestions or could point > me in the right direction, it would be much appreciated. I just want to > have the users of my smtp server to have to log in to avoid problems > with spam relay. i was having some problems with SMTP AUTH on Red Hat 8 with Postfix. the Postfix binaries have been linked with Cyrys SASL v1 and on RH8 the SASL v1 libraries don't seem to support the saslauthd password checking method which in my opinion is a must. my solution was to build Cyrus SASL v1.5.28 with saslauthd support and dynimically link Postfix with this library (had to move libsasl\.* away from /usr/lib and add the new SASL library path to /etc/ld.so.conf). then i modified /etc/rc.d/init.d/saslauthd to start the SASL v1 saslauthd. this seems to be working ok. best regards, -- aspa -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
