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Outgoing mail from client--Final problem to resolve

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#1 Mon, 06/29/2009 - 08:32

recci

Outgoing mail from client--Final problem to resolve

Everything seems to be working correctly on my VPS now apart from sending outgoing mail from thunderbird email client. I can receive mails but I cannot send them it just continually asks for the password.

Both sending and receiving is working fine from within usermin. It doesn't seem to be anything to do with TLS on the mail client side as I have tried it with all the settings. This problem has been mentioned before in the forums but Its not clear how it was resolved...so where do I begin with this?

#2 Mon, 06/29/2009 - 09:37

andreychek

I'd recommend looking in the mail log for any clues -- it should explain what's going on.

That would be either /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail.log.

-Eric

#3 Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:34

recci

Iv been looking in the mail logs but its not giving me real answer as all it says is the following and I know the passward is correct as thats what Im using to send the mails.

Jul 1 15:31:24 ns1 postfix/smtpd[7446]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied Jul 1 15:31:24 ns1 postfix/smtpd[7446]: warning: SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed Jul 1 15:31:24 ns1 postfix/smtpd[7446]:

[xx.xx.xxx.xxx]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure Jul 1 15:31:24 ns1 postfix/smtpd[7446]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied Jul 1 15:31:24 ns1 postfix/smtpd[7446]: warning: xx.xx.xxx.xxx.[xx.xx.xxx.xxx]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic failure

#4 Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:42 (Reply to #3)

andreychek

Are you using Ubuntu?

You may need to add postfix to the sasl group with this:

usermod -G sasl postfix

Afterwards, restart saslauthd, and you should be in good shape:

/etc/init.d/saslauthd restart

#5 Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:52

recci

yeah it is Ubuntu will try it.

#6 Wed, 07/01/2009 - 10:57 (Reply to #5)

recci

Working now!!! Thanks...

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