[nzlug] Regarding: Postfix + SASL authen............

[Chris Hodgetts]

On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 14:24 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> writes:
> 
> > Kinda not giving too much away...
> 
> For what the advice is worth, don't put effort into that.  You are going
> to get much less good advice if you try to keep details back.

Only details of where the host is, what network it's on and so forth...
(It's works machine)

> 
> > Hence, why I though I might be able to get Postfix to give an
> > authentication username and password, as this is already working on
> > the "primary" box.
> 
> Now, had you said that up front...

hmmm

<snip>
I want the postfix instance on it to connect back to our primary postfix
server(on a static IP), on another port, and authenticate via sasl so
this box can deliver messages back to us here in the office
</snip>

I would have thought that would have been self explanatory.

> 
> That is trivial.  You can easily have your remote Postfix supply SASL
> authentication details as a client:
> 
> http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#client_sasl

Thanks for that...



> Regards,
>         Daniel
> 
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