dovecot - Feb 2006 - using dovecot for postfix sasl

I have followed the Dovecot/Postfix/SASL howto, and modified the main.cf
and dovecot.conf files, yet when trying to authenticate during a postfix
SMTP session the log reports:
"postfix/smtpd....warning: SASL authentication failure: Could not open
db"

Dovecot itself is authenticating IMAP logins correctly, and it is
creating the auth file in the location specified under
/var/spool/postfix/private.

Why is postfix not able to get to the Dovecot auth mechanism?

Thanks.
Hugh

On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:02 PM, h at hpjt.net wrote:
> I have followed the Dovecot/Postfix/SASL howto, and modified the  
> main.cf
> and dovecot.conf files, yet when trying to authenticate during a  
> postfix
> SMTP session the log reports:
> "postfix/smtpd....warning: SASL authentication failure: Could not  
> open db"
>
> Dovecot itself is authenticating IMAP logins correctly, and it is
> creating the auth file in the location specified under
> /var/spool/postfix/private.
>
> Why is postfix not able to get to the Dovecot auth mechanism?
>
> Thanks.
> Hugh
This sounds like a problem with postfix. Have you searched their  
mailing lists? Check http://www.postfix.org/lists.html.

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Jacob Elder