bin/42638: postfix should compiled with cyrus sasl to suppport SMTP authentication as a client

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>Number:         42638
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       postfix should compiled with cyrus sasl to suppport SMTP 
>authentication as a client
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jan 18 19:30:00 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Frank Thieme
>Release:        5.99.23
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD stars.fthieme.local 5.99.23 NetBSD 5.99.23 (FT) #1: Fri Jan 15 10:54:42 
CET 2010  
fthieme%stars.fthieme.local@localhost:/usr/objdir/sys/arch/amd64/compile/FT 
amd64

>Description:
Today I tried to set up Postfix with a smarthost, which needs SMTP 
authentication. But Postfix ist just compiled with Dovecot, so it can just do 
SMTP authentication as a Server, not as a client.

http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html#versions states:

What SASL implementations are supported

This document describes Postfix with the following SASL implementations:

    * Cyrus SASL version 1 (client and server).
    * Cyrus SASL version 2 (client and server).
    * Dovecot protocol version 1 (server only, Postfix version 2.3 and later)

Postfix version 2.3 introduces a plug-in mechanism that provides support for 
multiple SASL implementations. To find out what implementations are built into 
Postfix, use the following commands:

    % postconf -a (SASL support in the SMTP server)
    % postconf -A (SASL support in the SMTP+LMTP client)


>How-To-Repeat:
-bash-4.1$ postconf -a
dovecot
-bash-4.1$ postconf -A
-bash-4.1$
>Fix:
Include cyrus sasl instead - or additionally - to dovecot sasl.