[GRLUG] Email testing w/sasl

[Justin Denick]

You might try specifying the realm. This is assumed when a domain is included, as in an email address. 

Local User John and john at domain.tld are not the same depending on your sasl mechanisms and virtual domain setup. 

-j




> On May 7, 2014, at 3:56 PM, "L. V. Lammert" <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 
> We inherited a system some years ago, and it is setup as follows:
> 
> * Local users send email to the internal server
> * Emails are copied to am archive
> * then Relayed to an external, public server with sasl authenciation
> 
> There are 20+ users operating correctly, but one user cannot authenticate
> (his [sasl] password to the external is valid).
> 
> Using testsasld does show that user does not authenticate, .. ***BUT*** no
> OTHER users authenticate with testsasld either! Possible clue - there are
> log messages that PAM authentication is failing for that one user?
> 
> Does anyone have a thought on proper usage of testsasld for testing (or a
> different way to test)? I am unsure how/why PAM is involved at all.
> 
>    Thanks!
> 
>    Lee
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