[imp] SASL authentication in IMP-6.1.0beta1

[Simon B]

On 17 May 2013 10:10, Simon B <simon.buongiorno at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 May 2013 19:58, Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> wrote:
>> Quoting Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>
>>> Zitat von Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>>
>>>> Citeren Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> Zitat von Arjen de Korte <arjen+horde at de-korte.org>:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm currently trying out the latest PEAR beta packages. I can't get the
>>>>>> SASL authentication to work. Previously, I've used the configuration in the
>>>>>> Mailer tab from the Horde configuration, with the
>>>>>> $conf[mailer][params][username] and $conf[mailer][params][password] fields
>>>>>> empty. With the -stable versions so far, this has always resulted in Horde
>>>>>> using the login credentials (which is what I want, since I use the same
>>>>>> credentials for IMAP and SMTP). This no longer works. Both the username and
>>>>>> password presented to the SMTP server are now empty. If I hardcode these in
>>>>>> the Mailer tab to an existing username:password combination, it works, but
>>>>>> this will only work as long as I have one user (myself) on the testing
>>>>>> system, since the SMTP server also checks if the logged-in user is allowed
>>>>>> to use the sender address. Is this still under development (and should I
>>>>>> just be a little more patient) or am I missing something in the
>>>>>> configuration?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sounds like a bug.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure. When I enter the same information from the Mailer tab in
>>>> 'imp/config/backends.local.php', it works as before. Could it be this is the
>>>> future method of configuration of the SASL authentication and that the
>>>> Mailer tab will be deprecated soon?
>>>
>>>
>>> No, the global mailer configuration is still required for applications
>>> other than IMP. And authentication with the current user's credentials will
>>> always be supported.
>>
>>
>> FWIW, I require authentication to my SMTP server and it works fine for me
>> configured in Horde's config.
>
> I've run into this problem too.  Although I am running Git.
>
> For the record here is my 6.0 config vs the 6.1
>
>  15     'smtp' => array(
>  16         'auth' => true,
>  17         'debug' => false,
>  18         'localhost' => 'localhost',
>  19         'host' => 'mail.example.net',
>  20         'port' => 587,
>  21         'password' => null,
>  22         'username' => null
>
> 437 #    'smtp' => array(
> 438 #        'auth' => true,
> 439 #        'localhost' => 'localhost',
> 440 #        'host' => 'mail.example.net',
> 441 #        'port' => 587,
> 442 #        'username' => null,
> 443 #        'password' => null,
>
> I can't have all the users authenticating with my account.  What do you suggest?
>

I should have added the maillogs
May 17 08:12:05 mail postfix/submission/smtpd[20028]: connect from
localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 17 08:12:05 mail postfix/submission/smtpd[20028]: setting up TLS
connection from localhost[127.0.0.1]
May 17 08:12:05 mail postfix/submission/smtpd[20028]: Anonymous TLS
connection established from localhost[127.0.0.1]: TLSv1 with cipher
DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)
May 17 08:12:05 mail dovecot: auth(default): login(?,127.0.0.1): Empty username
May 17 08:12:07 mail postfix/submission/smtpd[20028]: warning:
localhost[127.0.0.1]: SASL LOGIN authentication failed: VXNlcm5hbWU6

VXNlcm5hbWU6 decodes to Username:

Is this an error on my part?

Simon