Postfix + dbMail + smtp auth

Thanks Mike:  

Got it working fine with SASL2 using the wiki.  It wasn't
really as
complicated as it initially appeared.  

Regards, Dave  

-----Original Message-----
From: dbmail-bouncesdbmail.org [mailto:dbmail-bouncesdbmail.org] On Behalf
Of M. J. [Mike] OBrien
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:12 PM
To: DBMail mailinglist
Subject: Re: [Dbmail] Postfix + dbMail + smtp auth

Hi Dave:
With Postfix this is best done with SASL2. You MUST store
your DbMail user 
passwords in plaintext or you'll tear your hair out trying
to figure out why

it breaks. Any form of encrypted PW in the database will
cause SASL to fail.

I may be wrong on this but from early days to current dev
Postfix I have 
never seen a way to have Postfix do the authentication query
directly to the

database. I also see this approach as a huge security issue,
level red, so I

imagine Wietse Venema would not have favoured it with much
thought. Cyrus 
SASL is THAT good!

SASL or SASL2 with MySQL authentication configured is a
common aproach. You 
can configure this in main.cf as 'authentication required'
or the default 
'authentication optional'. Again, you MUST store your DbMail
user passwords 
in plaintext.

Check out this 
http://www.dbmail.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=smtp_auth pn
the 
Wiki and see if that helps.

Write me if you are stuck. If you do figure a better way,
please let me know

as I would love to see that 

best... Mike



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Williams" <DWilliamsCingo.net>
To: <dbmaildbmail.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 9:29 AM
Subject: [Dbmail] Postfix + dbMail + smtp auth


>I have dbmail working great with postfix-mysql to check
for aliases using
> your instructions on setting up sql-recipients.cf and
adding the following
> to mail.cf :
>
>
>
>
Local_recipient_maps=mysql:/etc/postfix/sql-recipients.cf
>
>
>
> My question:
>
> It seems like there should be a similar way to do smtp
authentication. 
> But
> every example that I can google requires pam-mysql and
SASL/SMTP-AUTH. Is
> there an easier way to have postfix directly query
dbmail?
>
>
>
> Thanks, Dave
>
>
>
>


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