Sympatico SMTP server's SASL authentication failure

[S P Arif Sahari Wibowo]

Hi!

As my usual SMTP provider (which I can connect by ssh tunneling) 
may close shop soon, I am trying to get my computer at home - 
running postfix 2.4.6 - to connect to the smtp server of my 
actual ISP - Sympatico. Sympatico SMTP server require TLS and 
SASL authentication. The SASL authentication failed as shown 
below:

------ quote from maillog ------
Mar  8 12:28:55 mymachine postfix/smtp[19987]: TLS connection established to smtphm.sympatico.ca: TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)
Mar  8 12:28:55 mymachine postfix/smtp[19987]: 9205B2323F2E: to=<aperson-8L6b+Gvr6myZwTwwIzLRkdBPR1lH4CV8 at public.gmane.org>, relay=smtphm.sympatico.ca[65.54.191.190]:25, delay=4784, delays=4783/0.04/0.73/0, dsn=4.7.0, status=deferred (SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server smtphm.sympatico.ca[65.54.191.190]: bad protocol / cancel)
------ end quote from maillog ------

The part of main.cf modified from the sample for this purpose is 
quoted below:

------ quote from maim.cf ------
smtp_use_tls=yes
smtp_tls_note_starttls_offer=yes
smtp_tls_loglevel=2

smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/opt/local/etc/postfix/saslpass
smtp_sasl_tls_security_options=
smtp_sasl_tls_verified_security_options=$smtp_sasl_tls_security_options
------ end quote from maim.cf ------

Any idea?

Thanks!

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