Hey - Using FC3, installed Postfix as a way to name the pain I go through on a daily basis at work with Sendmail. Last night I was configuring SMTP AUTH, Mozilla Thunderbird seems to just chuck this out. I discovered from a cron job that it appears SASL is not compiled in Postfix.

Now I installed Postfix from an RPM - is there a way to add SASL support to postfix without having to recompile everything?? I really don't want to recompile!

...SiE

You can find out if sasl support is included, try:

ldd /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd

You should see:

libsasl2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libsasl2.so.2 (0x28096000)
libssl.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libssl.so.3 (0x280aa000)
libcrypto.so.3 => /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.3 (0x280db000)
libc.so.5 => /usr/lib/libc.so.5 (0x281df000)

within the output. Just ignore the versions as they will probably differ.
If these lines aren't in, then you're missing the sasl support and you'll need to recompile it, but FC3 postfix has this in as standard.

I've just moved onto FC4 and I'm having a problem along the same lines. I know that I've compiler in sasl support and the main.cf file has all the right entries, but when I EHLO into the server I aren't shown AUTH.

Wonder why?