Postfix SASL authentication failure

Hello,

I’m using Virtualmin on Debian 8.1. The mail server is Postfix.

I’ve installed Roundcube, I can see received emails, but I cannot send(same thing for Thunderbird). Logs from /var/log/mail.log:

Feb 29 18:50:27 colr postfix/smtpd[24890]: connect from localhost[::1]
Feb 29 18:50:27 colr postfix/smtpd[24890]: warning: SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: No such file or directory
Feb 29 18:50:27 colr postfix/smtpd[24890]: warning: localhost[::1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic failure
Feb 29 18:50:27 colr postfix/smtpd[24890]: disconnect from localhost[::1]

Note that sending from Usermin works.

My e-mail accounts are in the format of “user@domain.tld”. Using testsaslauthd -u user@domain.tld -p pass returns “Success”.

The /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login saslauthd_path: /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd/mux

Do you have any ideas? Thanks

Howdy,

It’s possible you’re seeing a permission issue.

What is the output of this command:

ls -ld /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd