postfix sasl "cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory"
- by innotune
I try to setup postfix with smtp authentication.
I want to use /etc/shadow as my realm
Unfortunately I get a "generic error" when i try to authenticate
# nc localhost 25
220 mail.foo ESMTP Postfix
AUTH PLAIN _base_64_encoded_user_name_and_password_
535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: generic failure
In the mail.warn logfile i get the…