[SWLUG] SMTP Problems

[Jon Reynolds]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:59:46AM +0000, Justin Mitchell wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 09:36 +0000, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I am having (and always have had) a problem with my SMTP setup. Ever
> > since I have been running my own mail server I cannot seem to quite get
> > it set up right so that I can send mail from a _remote_ device. Sending
> > works fine 'from the server' i.e. if I ssh in and use mutt, or if I use
> > Roundcube installed on my server through a browser.
> > 
> > But I cannot get the settings quite right when trying to set up a remote
> > client, e.g. I am trying to use Maildroid and K9 on my Android phone. I
> > can access my mail fine, read all the different imap folders, but I
> > cannot send. 
> > 
> > During the set up of the account on the client, when entering SMTP
> > details, I am not 100% sure what I should be entering based on how I set
> > my system up. I set my system up using this guide >
> > http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts-p5
> > 
> > ...so i think I should be able to use SMTP with TLS (although tbh I am a
> > little uncertain to what everything means).
> > 
> > When I try to set up the account, I get an authentication error for
> > SMTP.
> > 
> > This is what /var/log/mail.log says when I try to set up my account on
> > the remote device (and it tries to connect) using the following settings:
> > 
> > Incoming IMAP server using TLS/SSL on port 993
> > Outgoing SMTP server NOT using TLS/SSL on port 25
> 
> > Jan 28 09:29:57 jcrdevelopments postfix/smtpd[14282]: warning: SASL
> > authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file
> > or directory
> 
> 
> your saslauthd daemon isnt running, that has to be there to handle the
> password checking used during auth.
> 
> 
> have you made sure that the service is going to be restarted on reboot
> 
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Hi Justin,

I believe my saslauthd is running:

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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
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Unless I am missing something?

Cheers,

Jon Reynolds