Best distro for Exim/Cyrus

[Paul O'Rorke]

Vlad and Andrew,

thanks so much for the tip on the "lmtpd -a" - that certainly did allow 
mail to flow to the expected mailbox.  Thanks so much.

I'm definitely making progress thanks to the help here. I'm stuck 
getting sasl authentication though.  As I understand it cyrus_sasl uses 
it's own (Berkley?) database so I can manage users without them having 
system accounts.  Certainly I've been using saslpasswd2 to set the user 
passwords but I'm unable to configure this.

If I uncomment any of the "Authentcate against cyrus-sasl" options I get 
an error when running  update-exim4.conf:

    root at blmail:~# update-exim4.conf
    2014-02-14 14:54:28 Exim configuration error in line 849 of
    /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
       authenticator cram_md5_sasl_server: cannot find authenticator
    driver "cyrus_sasl"
    Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not
    installing
    /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to
    /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

If I don't use any encrypted passwords I can log in, work with 
mailboxes, receive mail but not send (relay not permitted which I 
suspect is so as to not be an open relay..?)

What do I need to do to authenticate with the cyrus_sasl db?  Why would 
the authenticator driver "cyrus_sasl" not be available?  Do I need to 
enable that somewhere?

I've read so many conflicting pages I've completely confused myself.  
Maybe I should be looking at TLS/SSL now...

thanks again

*Paul O'Rorke* Tracker Software Products paul at tracker-software.com 
<mailto:paul.ororke at tracker-software.com>


On 2/13/2014 1:09 AM, Vladislav Kurz wrote:
>
> On Thursday 13 of February 2014 00:30:55 Paul O'Rorke wrote:
>
> > Thanks for that Vladislav, it was very helpful. :-)
>
> >
>
> > I have managed to get exim to use the defined cyrus_delivery transport
>
> > attempting to deliver a received mail but it is baulking on the SSL 
> cert.
>
> For starters, comment out everything related to tls/ssl. You can get 
> thet working later when everything else is OK. There's no need for TLS 
> and Auth on LMTP. I think Andrew is right, just fix the quotes in 
> cyrus.conf
>
> lmtp cmd="lmtpd -a" listen="localhost:lmtp" prefork=0 maxchild=20
>
> > and confirm the permissions on the cert file:
>
> >
>
> > root at blmail:~# ls -l /etc/ssl/private/
>
> > total 4
>
> > -rw-r----- 1 root root 916 Feb 12 12:41 ssl-cert-snakeoil.key
>
> >
>
> > What process/user should have access to this key? Is it simply the
>
> > wrong owner/group?
>
> I usually set the key to be readable by group mail, and ensure that 
> users cyrus and Debian-exim are members of group mail.
>
> > I'll come back to the Spamassassin issue later (unless of course it's
>
> > related!)
>
> I think it is not related.
>
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>
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