telnet hangs on the sasl2 part

[Roelof Wobben]

Op 2-6-2017 om 09:15 schreef Roelof Wobben:
> Op 2-6-2017 om 09:01 schreef 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.
>>
>
>
> Bummer, on the postfix ML they say it a cyrsus-sasl error.
> Can someone give me a hint how I can search for this.
>
> I tried   grep "auth.debug" /var/log/messages     and grep 
> "auth.debug"  dmesg and looked at the journalctl but no entries are 
> found.
>
> Roelof


I think the error were made because saslauthd was not running.
But still when I  do telnet localhost 25 I do not see any output of the 
command on my centos 7 machine.
The firewall is disabled.

Roelof