Comments on: Installing Postfix with MySql backend and SASL for SMTP authentication

By: Julien

Julien — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:27:21 +0000

My bad… overlooked the smtp/smtps disctinction!

One last thing to make the POP3/IMAP work… the authdaemon is looking for a ‘name’ field in the SQL query, and that was missing from the CREATE TABLE for users. Just add a name:

# Create table for e-mail accounts / users
CREATE TABLE users (
email varchar(255) NOT NULL,
password varchar(255) NOT NULL,
quota int(10) DEFAULT ’104857600′,
name varchar(255),
PRIMARY KEY (email)
) TYPE=MyISAM;

By: Julien

Julien — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 15:17:19 +0000

Looks like a very nice tutorial and I’ve been trying to get it to work so that I can stop managing long virtual email lists and turn some of them into full blown POP/IMAP boxes, while keeping minor ones as forwards.

I couldn’t get it to work, tt seems that SSL is the problem so far. Ex: Google/GMail can’t connect:

SSL_accept error from mail-vx0-f179.google.com[209.85.220.179]: -1

Did I forget something?

By: Tony

Tony — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:25:28 +0000

Fantastic tutorial. I was able to get through this with minimal problems. I also told a friend about this because he could use it.

By: Masters

Masters — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 08:07:46 +0000

If in log show this msg.
SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied

Add this command in tutorial

adduser postfix sasl
/etc/init.d/postfix restart

By: fantasio

fantasio — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:14:55 +0000

Thanx for your help . yes i solved this problems. there is a space before -o smtpd_tls_wrapper mode=yes

-o smtpd_tls_wrapper mode=yes (wrong)
-o smtpd_tls_wrapper mode=yes (right)

also i changed mail database name and give user rights to mail database and removed {} signs but now i am taking this errors i am installed squirrelmail .and evertyhing seems ok , when i logging up to my server giving me this error .what must i do .

Nov 3 17:57:22 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up
Nov 3 17:57:23 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to 127.0.0.1 (mail)
Nov 3 17:58:29 mail dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (1 authentication attempts): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Nov 3 17:58:33 mail dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (1 authentication attempts): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured
Nov 3 18:06:07 mail dovecot: Killed with signal 15
Nov 3 18:06:08 mail dovecot: Dovecot v1.0.15 starting up
Nov 3 18:06:09 mail dovecot: auth-worker(default): mysql: Connected to 127.0.0.1 (mail)
Nov 3 18:06:44 mail dovecot: imap-login: Aborted login (1 authentication attempts): user=, method=PLAIN, rip=127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.1, secured

By: aip

aip — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:30:32 +0000

Hey Fantasio

Make sure you replace {database} with your database name and remove all brackets.

In your master.cf does line 87 say “-o smtpd_tls_wrapper mode=yes” instead of “-o smtpd_tls_wrappermode=yes” (Notice the space betwen wrapper and mode)?

- aip

By: fantasio

fantasio — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:59:41 +0000

i am taking this error. what can i do

mail postfix/master[3841]: fatal: /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 87: bad transport type: smtpd_tls_wrapper mode=yes
Oct 26 17:21:21 mail postfix/master[5060]: fatal: /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 87: bad transport type: smtpd_tls_wrapper mode=yes
Oct 26 17:45:17 mail imapd: authentication error: Input/output error
Oct 26 17:45:17 mail authdaemond: authmysql: mysql_select_db({database}) error: Access denied for user ‘{fantasio}’@'localhost’ to database ‘{database}’