saslauthd not working

[Denis Ford]

From: "David C. Hart" <dch at TQMcube.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 2:34 PM

On Sat, 2004-01-10 at 14:13, Denis Ford wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've got a fresh installation of Fedora Core 1, with all packages updated
>> from the dulug mirror.  I'm trying to get SASL/Pam authentication set up
for
>> Postfix, according to the README in the postfix docs
>> (/usr/share/doc/postfix-2.0.11/README-Postfix-SASL-RedHat.txt) .  I've
gone
>> through all the steps, but it appears that saslauthd isn't working right:
>>

>Forget the RPM. Get the latest source from Wietse's site and read the
>SASL README. You need to compile it in.

>I have it working only after recitations from the Upanishads, the Talmud
>and Martha Stewart's biography. "Eye of newt . . . "

Yikes.  That was enough to lose my nerve -- I have sendmail up with AUTH
working easily enough:
http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.php

Hint - remove p as one of the confAUTH options.