Cannot send e-mail from outside

[Thomas Spuhler]

On Tuesday 16 January 2007 21:39, Thomas Spuhler wrote:
> Since a couple of upgrades ago, I cannot send e-mail from the outside
> anymore. In order to send e-mail from the outside, I need to authenticate.
> However, this seems not to work anymore. I am being asked fro the password
> in an infinite loop.
> This seems to be since I upgraded from Mandriva 2006 and of course some of
> the authentication packages were upgraded.
>
> I likely would be fixed if I did a kolab bootsatrap -b but hmmmmm
> Has anybody successfully gone through such an upgrade?

The mail/warning log shows:
  Jan 17 18:59:50 aargau postfix/smtpd[26386]: warning: SASL authentication
> problem: unable to open Berkeley db /var/lib/sasl2/sasl.db: Permission
> denied Jan 17 18:59:50 aargau postfix/smtpd[26386]: warning: SASL
> authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /var/lib/sasl2/sasl.db:
> Permission denied Jan 17 18:59:50 aargau postfix/smtpd[26386]: warning:
> SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed


I added postfix to group sasl as proposed in the MDV README file and now get 
this:
Jan 17 21:16:54 aargau postfix/smtpd[8648]: warning: SASL authentication 
problem: unable to open Berkeley db /var/lib/sasl2/sasl.db: Bad file 
descriptor
Jan 17 21:16:54 aargau postfix/smtpd[8648]: warning: SASL authentication 
problem: unable to open Berkeley db /var/lib/sasl2/sasl.db: Bad file 
descriptor
Jan 17 21:16:54 aargau postfix/smtpd[8648]: warning: SASL authentication 
failure: Password verification failed
Jan 17 21:16:54 aargau postfix/smtpd[8648]: warning: 
aargau.btspuhler.com[127.0.0.1]: SASL PLAIN authentication failed: 
authentication failure
Any suggestions? 

-- 
Thomas