On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 07:34 -0600, Mikkel wrote:
On 03/04/2010 09:25 PM, Craig White wrote:
I was just generally referring to the issue of smarthost = gmail which has nothing to do with SASL as far as I could imagine. For that matter, smarthost setup really has nothing to do with SASL.
Well, part of the thread was the problems he was having setting up SASL to work with the connection. Gmail does not like plain text user name/password when connecting to their server.
---- I didn't realize that Postfix uses SASL nomenclature to define outbound smtp authentication which really isn't using SASL at all but rather is just using SSL and/or TLS for the provided user/password and whatever internal technology Gmail uses is not relevant or transparent to the person/server that is authenticating beyond the SSL/TLS protocols.
It seems to me that Postfix is just creating confusion by calling it SASL.
Craig