telnet hangs on the sasl2 part

[Dan White]

On 06/02/17 08:31 +0200, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I have this in my main.cf :
>
>smtpd_sasl_path = smtpd
>smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
>
>in my sasl2 config file I have this :
>
>pwcheck_method = auxprop
>auxprop_plugin = sasldb2
>mech_list = plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 ntlm
>
>But still when I do telnet localhost 25 and then ehlo localhost I
>see no respons what so ever.
>
>On the mailllog I see these errors : <br>
>
>Jun  1 18:07:11 localhost postfix/smtpd[9650]: warning: SASL per-process initialization failed: error when parsing configuration file
>Jun  1 18:07:11 localhost postfix/smtpd[9650]: fatal: SASL per-process initialization failed
>Jun  1 18:07:12 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 9650 exit status 1
>Jun  1 18:07:12 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>Jun  1 18:08:12 localhost postfix/smtpd[9652]: warning: SASL per-process initialization failed: error when parsing configuration file
>Jun  1 18:08:12 localhost postfix/smtpd[9652]: fatal: SASL per-process initialization failed
>Jun  1 18:08:13 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 9652 exit status 1
>Jun  1 18:08:13 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>Jun  1 18:09:13 localhost postfix/smtpd[9653]: warning: SASL per-process initialization failed: error when parsing configuration file
>Jun  1 18:09:13 localhost postfix/smtpd[9653]: fatal: SASL per-process initialization failed
>Jun  1 18:09:14 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 9653 exit status 1
>Jun  1 18:09:14 localhost postfix/master[2315]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>Jun  1 18:11:09 localhost postfix/postfix-script[1540]: starting the Postfix mail system
>Jun  1 18:11:09 localhost postfix/master[1542]: daemon started -- version 2.10.1, configuration /etc/postfix
>
>The user of the sasldb2 is postfix:root   
>
>What can be the culprit here? 
>
>I know I have to use tls and encrypted passwords but thet is not discussed yet in the postfix documentation that I follow. I follow this page : http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html

The 'warning: SASL per-process initialization failed' is a postfix error,
indicating a likely configuration problem within postfix.

See auth.debug syslog entries for any cyrus sasl errors.