SASL authentication failures with SQL

Jason Dixon jason at dixongroup.net
Sat Nov 18 15:10:37 EST 2006


On Nov 18, 2006, at 2:34 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:

>>> I think you need to store the password in plain text for the sql  
>>> auxprop
>>> to work.
>> That was my thought as well.  If this is the case, then how does  
>> dovecot-sasl authenticate successfully?
>
> You can store the passwords in encrypted format if you limit the  
> mechanisms to those that can use the encrypted data.  Search the  
> archives for examples.
>
> What you really need to do is enable "verbose" in your  
> application.conf file so that you can see the syslog of each  
> query.  This will explain everything.

I've already enabled sql_verbose in smtpd.conf, but it seems to have  
no effect.

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Jason Dixon
DixonGroup Consulting
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