Re: postfix smtp + sasl

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:02 AM, matthew sporleder
<msporleder%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:13 AM, David Wetzel <dave%turbocat.de@localhost> 
> wrote:
>>
>> Am 17.01.2010 um 21:34 schrieb matthew sporleder:
>>
>>> Is there a way to add this feature without adding postfix from pkgsrc?
>>
>> I think not.
>>
>>> I'm tight on disk space.
>>
>> Delete some stuff in /usr/share, HTML manuals etc.
>>
>> Your /etc/mk.conf should contain:
>> POSTFIX_USE_SASL_AUTH=YES
>>
>> You need also cyrus-saslauthd from pkgsrc and the authentication plugins 
>> like cy2-plain, cy2-crammd5 etc.
>>
>
> This might be a pkgsrc issue more than anything, but I'm getting the
> following error now:
>
> Shouldn't it be okay with me already having the users?  When I deleted
> them I think it was breaking on permissions in /var/spool/postfix.
> When I moved that out of the way it complained that the directory
> didn't exist!
>
> I thought replacing the base postfix was pretty common.  Am I doing
> something obviously wrong?
>
>
> ===> Installing for postfix-2.6.5
> => Creating installation directories
> => Running PRE-INSTALL script actions
> postfix-2.6.5: Creating group ``maildrop''
> groupadd: Can't create group `maildrop': already exists
> postfix-2.6.5: Creating user ``postfix''
> useradd: Can't add user `postfix': `postfix' is already a user
> ===========================================================================
> The following groups need to be created for postfix-2.6.5:
>
>        maildrop
>
> ===========================================================================
> ===========================================================================
> The following users need to be created for postfix-2.6.5:
>
>        postfix: postfix, /var/spool/postfix, /sbin/nologin
>
> ===========================================================================
> *** Error code 1
>


This was caused by my WRKDIR being on nfs.