NetBSD Problem Report #42638

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From: frank@fthieme.net
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Subject: postfix should compiled with cyrus sasl to suppport SMTP authentication as a client
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>Number:         42638
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       postfix should compiled with cyrus sasl to suppport SMTP authentication as a client
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          closed
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 18 19:30:00 +0000 2010
>Closed-Date:    Mon Jan 18 19:36:15 +0000 2010
>Last-Modified:  Fri Jan 22 09:15:04 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Frank Thieme
>Release:        5.99.23
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD stars.fthieme.local 5.99.23 NetBSD 5.99.23 (FT) #1: Fri Jan 15 10:54:42 CET 2010  fthieme@stars.fthieme.local:/usr/objdir/sys/arch/amd64/compile/FT amd64

>Description:
Today I tried to set up Postfix with a smarthost, which needs SMTP authentication. But Postfix ist just compiled with Dovecot, so it can just do SMTP authentication as a Server, not as a client.

http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#versions states:

What SASL implementations are supported

This document describes Postfix with the following SASL implementations:

    * Cyrus SASL version 1 (client and server).
    * Cyrus SASL version 2 (client and server).
    * Dovecot protocol version 1 (server only, Postfix version 2.3 and later)

Postfix version 2.3 introduces a plug-in mechanism that provides support for multiple SASL implementations. To find out what implementations are built into Postfix, use the following commands:

    % postconf -a (SASL support in the SMTP server)
    % postconf -A (SASL support in the SMTP+LMTP client)


>How-To-Repeat:
-bash-4.1$ postconf -a
dovecot
-bash-4.1$ postconf -A
-bash-4.1$
>Fix:
Include cyrus sasl instead - or additionally - to dovecot sasl.

>Release-Note:

>Audit-Trail:

State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
State-Changed-By: tron@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:36:15 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
I'm sorry but Postfix cannot be compiled with Cyrus SASL support because
Cyrus SASL is not included in the base-system.

Postfix also doesn't support using Dovecot in SMTP client mode which is
why that option isn't available either.

The only possible option (without Cyrus SASL in the base system) is
support for using Dovecot in SMTP server mode which gets compiled in.


From: David Holland <dholland-bugs@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org, tron@NetBSD.org,
	frank@fthieme.net
Subject: Re: bin/42638 (postfix should compiled with cyrus sasl to suppport
	SMTP authentication as a client)
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 09:14:38 +0000

 On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 07:36:17PM +0000, tron@NetBSD.org wrote:
  > State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
  > State-Changed-By: tron@NetBSD.org
  > State-Changed-When: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:36:15 +0000
  > State-Changed-Why:
  > I'm sorry but Postfix cannot be compiled with Cyrus SASL support because
  > Cyrus SASL is not included in the base-system.
  > 
  > Postfix also doesn't support using Dovecot in SMTP client mode which is
  > why that option isn't available either.
  > 
  > The only possible option (without Cyrus SASL in the base system) is
  > support for using Dovecot in SMTP server mode which gets compiled in.

 ...or one can use postfix from pkgsrc.

 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland@netbsd.org

>Unformatted:

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