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December 4, 2008 at 12:41 PM
neon samurai

postfix/sasl failing on Debian; “saslauthd server: Permission denied”

by neon samurai . Updated 17 years, 9 months ago

I’ve been at this for a few days and can’t figure out what I’m missing though I’m sure it’s something obvious.

Regardless of what configuration changes I make:

“SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied”

Even the venerable Jimmy’s Howto ( http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=52 ) followed line by line leaves my mail dysfunctional.

Too add to the frustration, I’ve setup postfix/sasl/ipopd many times now with no issue using other distributions but Debian is just not playing nicely.

Any ideas too what I’m missing?
(the howto and every other postfix/sasl one I could find says I have it setup the same way they all did for Sarge and Etch)

Any idea what the correct chmod for /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/ and contained files should be?
(mine shows 700 on directory and files though I’ve tried 770 and “chgrp sasl /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd” with user postfix belonging too group sasl.

Is there a different preferred way to get smtps/prostfix/pops setup on Debian 4r5?

Mail processing works.
Mail pops receipt to client works.
Mail smtps receipt from client remains broken.

I can provide more detailed information as requested.

It’s to the point now where I’m going to do a reinstall on the testing server without “umask 077” in the build scripts just to see if that ate something it shouldn’t have.

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