Postfix won't send portage logmails

msulli1355

I followed the guide at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Mail_server_using_Postfix_and_Dovecot to set up postfix. Posfix WILL send emails from cron, but not portage. I installed app-accessibility/festival-2.1-r1::gentoo today. At the bottom of my teminal window, it says:

>>> Installing (1 of 1) app-accessibility/festival-2.1-r1::gentoo
*
* Useful examples include saytime, text2wave. For example, try:
* "/usr/share/doc/festival-2.1-r1/examples/saytime"
*
* Or for something more fun:
* "echo "Gentoo can speak" | festival --tts"
*
* This version also allows configuration of site specific
* initialization in /etc/festival/siteinit.scm and
* variables in /etc/festival/sitevars.scm.
*
!!! An error occurred while trying to send logmail:
Connection unexpectedly closed
>>> Auto-cleaning packages...

>>> No outdated packages were found on your system.

* GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

* IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/postfix/main.cf' needs updating.
* See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge
* man page to learn how to update config files.

When I consult /var/log/messages, I see this:
Sep 3 15:28:24 camille postfix/smtpd[14770]: connect from camille.espersunited.com[192.168.0.3]
Sep 3 15:28:24 camille postfix/smtpd[14770]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Sep 3 15:28:25 camille postfix/master[6903]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 14770 exit status 1
Sep 3 15:28:25 camille postfix/master[6903]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

What gives? I manually started saslauthd because somebody said that resolved their issue:

michael@camille ~ $ sudo ps ax | grep saslauthd
Password:
10839 ? Ss 0:00 saslauthd -a sasldb start
10840 ? S 0:00 saslauthd -a sasldb start
10841 ? S 0:00 saslauthd -a sasldb start
10842 ? S 0:00 saslauthd -a sasldb start
10843 ? S 0:00 saslauthd -a sasldb start
14832 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep --colour=auto saslauthd

I'm kinda lost here. Please help!

freke · Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:57 pm Post subject:

I've got a working (for me:)) Dovecot/Postfix-setup - I'm using Dovecot for handling sasl (you've got Dovecot running?), though (ie. 'smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot' in /etc/postfix/main.cf), I don't have saslauthd running.
(No idea if Dovecot calls it at some point)

Other than that it seems odd that Cron can send mails but not Portage (how's your restrictions in /etc/postfix/main.cf?)

ie. I've got something like:

msulli1355 · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2015 3:38 pm Post subject:

I took care of the etc-update thing. I also openened up /etc/postfix/main.cf and added the line:

mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/28, 127.0.0.0/8

I restarted postfix, and then tried to re-merge festival. At this point it's the only package that I know of that definitely tries to send logmail. I got the familiar

!!! An error occurred while trying to send logmail:
Connection unexpectedly closed

My /var/log/messages says:

Sep 5 10:35:11 camille postfix/smtpd[31523]: connect from camille.espersunited.com[192.168.0.3]
Sep 5 10:35:11 camille postfix/smtpd[31523]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
Sep 5 10:35:12 camille postfix/master[27613]: warning: process /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 31523 exit status 1
Sep 5 10:35:12 camille postfix/master[27613]: warning: /usr/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling

What's next?

magic919 · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 8:10 am Post subject:

I can't view the howto.

Can you do a postconf -n | grep sasl and paste it.

msulli1355 · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:59 pm Post subject:

michael@camille ~ $ sudo postconf -n | grep sasl
Password:
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, permit_sasl_authenticated, reject_unauth_destination
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth
smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot

magic919 · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:09 am Post subject:

That's ok. Can you confirm that Postfix is build with dovecot-sasl support too?

msulli1355 · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 2:54 pm Post subject:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] mail-mta/postfix-3.0.1-r1::gentoo USE="berkdb dovecot-sasl eai ldap mysql pam sasl ssl -cdb -doc -hardened -ldap-bind -lmdb -mbox -memcached -nis -postgres (-selinux) -sqlite -vda" 0 KiB

freke · Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 3:39 pm Post subject:

I was able to get the same result:

msulli1355 · Posted: Sat Sep 19, 2015 3:12 pm Post subject:

michael@camille ~ $ sudo rc-status | grep dovecot
dovecot [ started ]
michael@camille ~ $ sudo ps aux | grep dovecot
root 3176 0.0 0.0 3392 2232 ? Ss Sep14 0:00 /usr/sbin/dovecot -c /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf
dovecot 3404 0.0 0.0 3092 1704 ? S Sep14 0:00 dovecot/anvil
root 3405 0.0 0.0 3224 1948 ? S Sep14 0:00 dovecot/log
michael 19419 0.0 0.0 4636 2156 pts/4 S+ 10:12 0:00 grep --colour=auto dovecot
michael@camille ~ $