SMTP not working: issue authenticating email password

[fnord]

Hi,

I've set up OXCE on a freshly installed minimal Ubuntu 8.04 Server with the CE Installer script. My server has two domains "domain1" and "domain2". domain1 is the primary domain which means it has a reverse DNS entry.
After installation it took me some time to get SMTP auth working correctly. The issue here was the error

SEVERE: MSG-0094 Category=3 Message=There was an issue in authenticating your E-Mail password. This may be because of a recent password change. To continue please logout now and then log back in with your most current password. (server=localhost, user=9, context=1) exceptionID=-2079704215-401

which was resolved by adding the file /etc/postfix/sasl/smtpd.conf with content

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN

and adding the lines

smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

to /etc/postfix/main.cf. Now everything works for domain1 but NOT for domain2. I still get this error:

SEVERE: MSG-0094 Category=3 Message=There was an issue in authenticating your E-Mail password. This may be because of a recent password change. To continue please logout now and then log back in with your most current password. (server=localhost, user=9, context=1) exceptionID=-2079704215-401
MSG-0094 Category=3 Message=There was an issue in authenticating your E-Mail password. This may be because of a recent password change. To continue please logout now and then log back in with your most current password. (server=localhost, user=9, context=1) exceptionID=-2079704215-401
        at com.openexchange.api2.MailInterfaceImpl.handleMessagingException(MailInterfaceImpl.java:5676)
        at com.openexchange.api2.MailInterfaceImpl.sendMessage(MailInterfaceImpl.java:3402)
        at com.openexchange.ajax.Mail.action(Mail.java:2549)
        at com.openexchange.ajax.AJAXServlet.fireUploadEvent(AJAXServlet.java:920)
        at com.openexchange.ajax.Mail.doPost(Mail.java:2464)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:709)
        at com.openexchange.ajax.AJAXServlet.service(AJAXServlet.java:399)
        at com.openexchange.ajax.SessionServlet.service(SessionServlet.java:138)
        at com.openexchange.ajax.PermissionServlet.service(PermissionServlet.java:86)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at com.openexchange.tools.ajp13.AJPv13Request.response(AJPv13Request.java:92)
        at com.openexchange.tools.ajp13.AJPv13RequestHandler.createResponse(AJPv13RequestHandler.java:363)
        at com.openexchange.tools.ajp13.AJPv13Connection.createResponse(AJPv13Connection.java:168)
        at com.openexchange.tools.ajp13.AJPv13Listener.run(AJPv13Listener.java:245)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
Caused by: javax.mail.AuthenticationFailedException
        at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:306)
        at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:156)
        at com.openexchange.api2.MailInterfaceImpl.sendMessage(MailInterfaceImpl.java:3383)
        ... 13 more

and postfix reports

Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: warning: localhost[127.0.0.1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: > localhost[127.0.0.1]: 535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: authentication failure
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: smtp_get: EOF
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: match_hostname: localhost ~? 127.0.0.0/8
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: match_hostaddr: 127.0.0.1 ~? 127.0.0.0/8
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: lost connection after AUTH from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: disconnect from localhost[127.0.0.1]
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: master_notify: status 1
Jun 11 13:49:27 server postfix/smtpd[5388]: connection closed

Any ideas why sasl authenticates domain1 correctly with my current setup but domain2 not? This error occurs only when sending emails from domain2. Receiving works fine as well as IMAP/POP. One thing more: the above error is simply incorrect, since I never changed any password since creating the user.

I already searched the forum and google, but didn't find anything useful, except the thread http://www.open-xchange.com/forum/showthread.php?t=510 which helped me resolving the initial problems with domain1 but not with the issues with domain2.

Thanks already in advance for any help,
fnord

[fnord]

Found the error. Turned out the file /etc/pam.d/smtp was missing.

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