[TriLUG] Setting up a secure mail server with Postfix (SMTP AUTH), Dovecot, Squirrelmail, etc

[Benjamin Reed]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:

> Heh.  It turns out it was Joseph Tate who actually determined the 
> brokenness of the Red Hat RPMs; I think he posted this a while back.  The 
> problem is that different components were using differing versions of 
> SASL, and the two versions are incompatible.  Joseph convinced John Dennis 
> at Red Hat of this and the result was fixed RPMs in Rawhide... thanks Joe.
> 
> I was pulling my hair out about this quite a bit, another thing that was 
> real handy, from the above bugzilla attachment text, was the hint on how 
> to get saslauthd to log more verbosely.  Chris Ricker and John Dennis 
> really did a good job in that document.

Well, I'd been using the (pretty well-known) postfix RPMS from here:

   http://www.pobox.com/~sjmudd/postfix/

...but I could never get them to agree with redhat.

I guess next time I know what to do.  =)