From: "David C. Hart" <dch@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.