[SWLUG] SMTP Problems

[Jon Reynolds]

Can anyone give me any more pointers to sorting this out? I am at a bit of
a loss really.

Thanks,

Jon Reynolds

On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:12:02 +0000, Jon Reynolds
<maillist at jcrdevelopments.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:20:25AM +0000, Justin Mitchell wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Justin,
>> >
>> > I believe my saslauthd is running:
>> >
>> > -----------------------
>> > jonr at jcrdevelopments:~$ ps -aux | grep sasl
>> > Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
>> > http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
>> > root      5772  0.0  0.0  53576   396 ?        Ss   Jan27   0:00
>> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
> -r
>> > -n 5
>> > root      5773  0.0  0.0  53576   132 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
>> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
> -r
>> > -n 5
>> > root      5775  0.0  0.0  53576    28 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
>> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
> -r
>> > -n 5
>> > root      5776  0.0  0.0  53576    28 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
>> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
> -r
>> > -n 5
>> > root      5777  0.0  0.0  53576    28 ?        S    Jan27   0:00
>> > /usr/sbin/saslauthd -a pam -c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd
> -r
>> > -n 5
>> > ------------------------
>> >
>> > Unless I am missing something?
>>
>>
>> well the piece of your log i quoted was postfix not being able to talk
>> to saslauthd, i expected the reason to be that it wasnt there.
>>
>>
>> hrm  /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd  is a bit of a strange
>> pathname...
>>
>> i would investigate around that
>>
>>
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> 
> The funny path is only because I was following the tutorial and that's
> what it said to do (not knowing any better). It worked at first, but
> then dropped out.
> 
> Jon
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