On Sunday, June 14, 2009 at 14:57 CEST,
Gerard <postfix.u...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am attempting to set up Postfix to accept mail from 'fetchmail' I
> continually receive this error in the mail log:
>
> /var/log/maillog:
>
> Jun 14 08:14:25 scorpio postfix/smtpd[74871]: connect from
> localhost[127.0.0.1]
> Jun 14 08:14:25 scorpio postfix/smtpd[74871]: warning:
> xsasl_cyrus_server_get_mechanism_list: no applicable SASL mechanisms
> Jun 14 08:14:25 scorpio postfix/smtpd[74871]: fatal: no SASL authentication
> mechanisms
> Jun 14 08:14:26 scorpio postfix/master[61935]: warning: process
> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 74871 exit status 1
> Jun 14 08:14:26 scorpio postfix/master[61935]: warning:
> /usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
>
> This is the smtpd.conf file if that is important:
>
> # Global Parameters
> log_level: 0
> pwcheck_method: auxprop
> mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
Okay, only plaintext mechanisms.
[...]
> smtpd_sasl_security_options = noanonymous , noplaintext
And here you explicitly forbid plaintext mechanisms. That's probably why
you get the error message.
[...]
> Is this a problem with the Postfix configuration or with fatchmail?
Postfix. But why have you enabled server-side SASL when you're not using
it? There was no permit_sasl_authenticated in your "postconf -n" output,
so unless you have something in your master.cf it doesn't matter whether
a client authenticates or not.
--
Magnus Bäck
mag...@dsek.lth.se
