On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:20:56 +0200 Magnus Bäck <mag...@dsek.lth.se> wrote:
>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. Fixed. I had a misspelling so Postfix was not picking it up. I also needed to insert a 'check_relay_domains'. Thanks for your assistance. -- Gerard postfix.u...@yahoo.com TO REPORT A PROBLEM see http://www.postfix.org/DEBUG_README.html#mail TO (UN)SUBSCRIBE see http://www.postfix.org/lists.html You're at the end of the road again.
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