Re: bad protocol error Testing SASL configuration

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bad protocol error Testing SASL configuration
\ Alessia Moretti (19 Sep 2007)
. \ Patrick Ben Koetter (19 Sep 2007)

2 msg	warning: smtpd_sasl_auth_enable is true, but SA...
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Subject:	Re: bad protocol error Testing SASL configuration
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	Patrick Ben Koetter
Date:	19 Sep 2007

* Alessia Moretti <alemim>:
> Hallo evryone
>
> I'm really new of the email-world but I found it very inetersting.
> I'm doing a stage for my degree and my goal is to install a working mail
> server using postfix-amavisd-clamd-Sasl and Cyrus-Imap.
> After the configuration I'm testing the authentication mechanism used by
> SASL.
> I've started a Telent session and at the moment to autenticate myself I
> wrote
> AUTH PLAIN xxxxxxxxxxx
> where xxxxxxxxx is string obtained with the comand
> per -MMIME::Base64 -e \ 'print
> encode_base64("useraddress\0useraddress\0password).
>
> The authentication fail and I obtain this answer
>
> 435 4.7.0 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure
>
> Where would I search first to fixn the problem? Where would most probably be
> the config error?

http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html ?

p@rick

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