Joe Strusz wrote:
> OK, well i disabled the smtpd_tl_auth_only line.
> 
> And now whenever i try to connect via say outlook express on a client 
> machine...
> 
> I check the box that says, "my outgoing server requires authentication", 
> and i do get the password prompt, however whichever login/password i try 
> to use it gets rejected, over and over and over again...
> 
> any suggestions?

SASL doesn't use system authentication (such as PAM/LDAP) by default. It 
uses it's own password database (similar to the way samba works).

Make sure that you run:

saslpasswd2 -c <username>

to add the user (and their password) to the SASL authentication database.

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