cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
After upgrading my server from debian etch to lenny, I discovered that the saslauthd was broken. The log looked like this:
SASL authentication failure: Password verification failed
SASL PLAIN authentication failed: generic failure
SASL authentication failure: cannot connect to saslauthd server: Permission denied
SASL LOGIN authentication failed: generic failure
The solution for this problem is documented in /usr/share/doc/sasl2-bin/README.Debian.gz:
- edit
/etc/default/saslauthdand setOPTIONSlike this:
OPTIONS="-c -m /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd" - run this command as root:
dpkg-statoverride --add root sasl 710 /var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthd - add the postfix user to the sasl group:
adduser postfix sasl - restart saslauthd and postfix
Many thanks
Danke
hatte das gleiche Problem 
Many thanks! I had exactly the same problems after upgrading vom etch to lenny – your blog post helped me!
Hi,
hat mir weitergeholfen. Vielen Dank!
My feeling is that a debian server upgrade (etch->lenny) from postfix/qpopper to postfix/zarafa will not be that fast as I expected
Danke danke danke,
you’ve made my day
Vielen Dank. Hatte soeben das gleiche Problem.