protip: Postfix no longer forces installation of sasl2 plain libraries

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Sun Jun 17 07:18:55 UTC 2012



Am 17.06.2012 04:56, schrieb Julian C. Dunn:
> Thought this info might be useful to anyone else installing F17 from scratch and trying to port old Postfix configs.
> It seems that installing Postfix does not, by default, install cyrus-sasl-plain. This means that AUTH LOGIN PLAIN mechanism won't work out of the box when using Postfix as a client.

fine - one OPTIONAL dependency lesser
there are many postfix-installations not using SASL at all

think about a ton of web/file/db-servers etc. running postfix
for relay syste- mails to our MX and they do not need auth
in the LAN nor are they reachable from any network

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