Am 17.06.2012 04:56, schrieb Julian C. Dunn:
Thought this info might be useful to anyone else installing F17 from
scratch and trying to port old Postfix configs.
It seems that installing Postfix does not, by default, install cyrus-sasl-plain. This
means that AUTH LOGIN PLAIN mechanism won't work out of the box when using Postfix as
a client.
fine - one OPTIONAL dependency lesser
there are many postfix-installations not using SASL at all
think about a ton of web/file/db-servers etc. running postfix
for relay syste- mails to our MX and they do not need auth
in the LAN nor are they reachable from any network