Postix SMTP Auth

[velodude]

I am having some problems getting SMTP authentication to work between Cyrus-SASL and Postfix.

Here is what I have done so far:

1) Without the SASL config in main.cf I am able to sucessfully telnet from a remote host to port 25 and send mail. No problems.

2) When I add the config below to main.cf the server does indeed respond that it is looking for various authentication methods. However, when I insert the Base64 encoded (username/0username/0password) it fails.

I am initialling trying to autheticate off of the local passwd database.

What am I doing wrong. Any assistance or pointers would be very much appreciated.

(changed domains)

220 server1.domain.org ESMTP Postfix
EHLO mail.example.com
250-server1.domain.org
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI PLAIN CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
250-AUTH=DIGEST-MD5 GSSAPI PLAIN CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
250 8BITMIME
AUTH PLAIN dGVzdAB0ZXN0AHRlc3Q=
535 Error: authentication failed

main.cf (SASL config)
-------------------------
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasls_auth_enable = yes
smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtpd_sasl_local_domain = $mydomain
broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes

smtp_recipient_restrictions =
permit_sasl_authenticated
permit_mynetworks
reject_unauth_destination

SASL smtpd.conf
=================
log_level: 3
pwcheck_method: pwcheck
mech-list: plain login CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5

[farslayer]

Not much response here on this issue. .I would suggest giving the postfix mail list a shot. very active and very herlpful people over there.

[kode]

AUTH PLAIN dGVzdAB0ZXN0AHRlc3Q=

You are telling it to use PLAIN authentication, but you aren't giving it a plaintext password... you are giving it an encrypted password, so you should tell it to use DIGEST-MD5 or CRAM-MD5...