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Eudora 554 Relay access denied with Postfix and SASL

I ran "apt-get upgrade" on my server recently, and didn't pay too much attention to what it fixed until my Eudora users starting calling me saying they could no longer send email. The were getting the dreaded "554 Relay access denied" error.

Looking at /var/log/maillog I saw the following errors for a user I will call "billyjoejimbob":

Nov 14 17:06:28 myhost postfix/smtpd[15680]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory
Nov 14 17:06:28 myhost postfix/smtpd[15680]: warning: SASL authentication problem: unable to open Berkeley db /etc/sasldb2: No such file or directory
Nov 14 17:06:28 myhost postfix/smtpd[15680]: warning: SASL authentication failure: no secret in database
Nov 14 17:06:28 myhost postfix/smtpd[15680]: warning: unknown[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX]: SASL CRAM-MD5 authentication failed

Funny, it was working fine before. Here is what the logs looked like before the upgrade:

Nov  9 09:16:11 myhost postfix/smtpd[19975]: BLAHBLAH: client=blahblah[XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX], sasl_method=LOGIN, sasl_username=billyjoejimbob

Note that the sasl_method is LOGIN. Looks like my SASL settings got trashed. So I scooted over to /usr/lib/sasl2/smptd.conf and took a peak.

pwcheck_method: saslauthd

Yep. looks like it reverted to defaults. I changed it to the following:

pwcheck_method: saslauthd
mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN

Rebooted postfix, and now it seems to be working.

Eclipse Visual Editor (VE) Problem

Got the following error while opening a visual class in Eclipse.

IWAV0168E Improper nesting of mark statements in Expression. Tried to pop or endMark to before current mark. Tried to go past Mark# 0.

Here is what I did to fix it (at least temporarily). Worked for me, no guarantees for anyone else.

• Close Eclipse.
• Go to my workspace (usually in "C:\Documents and Settings\YOUR_USER_NAME\workspace").
• Navigate to the following location: ".metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.ve.java.core"
• Delete the ".cache" folder.
• Restart Eclipse and see if it works.

Hope this works for others.