postfix + dovecot smtp_auth problem

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lifanov

Hello.
I am trying to set up a simple mail server inside a FreeBSD jail.
It uses real accounts and mboxes.
I scrapped my jail and started over many times.
So far I have postfix and dovecot installed from ports.
I can send and receive mail, but I can only send mail from localhost. I tried it both with dovecot sasl and cyrus.
I will post relevant info.
Please help me get through this.
 
SASL with Dovecot should be quite simple. If Postfix and Dovecot are already installed, do $ postconf -a to check if Dovecot SASL authentication is supported.

Then follow the instructions on this page.

Edit: If Postfix doesn't support Dovecot SASL, configure it again and reinstall it.
 
# postconf -a
Code: 
dovecot

Thanks a bunch people!
/var/log/maillog revealed that I was missing aliases.db.
For some reason I repeatedly failed to create one inside the jail, so I copied it over from my host system and did # make aliases one more time and now I can send and receive mail!
 
I guess you mean the command
# newalias instead of # make aliases which is from sendmail.

check if the alias source file exist where it is expected.
# postconf alias_maps

With the command # postconf alias_database you can check where the alias database will be created (command does not display the db suffix)
 
I did exactly # make aliases after copying aliases.db from the host system and it seems to work as expected.
That might explain why I couldn't create it in the first place.
I will run # newaliases next time.
 
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