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Re: postfix for dummies (me) probably a general error in config of smtp

From: Charles Marcus <CMarcus_at_nospam>
Date: Mon Mar 28 2011 - 16:30:03 GMT
To: postfix-users@postfix.org

On 2011-03-28 12:12 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 28.03.2011 18:01, schrieb Charles Marcus:
>> On 2011-03-25 5:27 PM, Walt Shekrota wrote:
>>> smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

>> dovecot's sasl implementation doesn't support CLIENT side SASL auth,
>> only server side.
>> If you need client side SASL AUTH capability, use Cyrus-SASL...

> to specify exactly:
>
> "smtpd_sasl_type": smtpd = receive mails, smtp = send mails

Interesting - I never even noticed you can specify a different type for
each, so I thought the one setting was for both... guess I should have
checked postconf -d output before posting...

But at least now I do know - thanks for pointing that out...

-- Best regards, Charles