Hi. I've very new to Ubuntu but came across this exact same problem when setting up a mail server. I've been following the Flurdy tutorial line by line from a fresh server install. When I got to the SASL step I got the magic 'mech not available message'.
I carried out the following edits: (This is the original file on the Flurdy site): pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login cram-md5 digest-md5 log_level: 7 allow_plaintext: true auxprop_plugin: mysql sql_engine: mysql sql_hostnames: 127.0.0.1 sql_user: mail sql_passw: mailPASSWORD sql_database: maildb sql_select: select crypt from users where id='%u@%r' and enabled = 1 I changed this file to: pwcheck_method: saslauthd mech_list: plain login pam log_level: 7 allow_plaintext: true auxprop_plugin: sql sql_engine: mysql sql_hostnames: 127.0.0.1 sql_user: mail sql_passwd: mailPASSWORD sql_database: maildb sql_select: select crypt from users where id='%u@%r' and enabled = 1 (database name and pw are from the sample not my own!) Note the changes to the 3 lines 'mech_list', 'auxprop_plugin' changed to 'sql' rather than 'mysql' and 'sql_passw' changed to 'sql_passwd'. Before I changed this last one I was getting 'generic error'. After the above changes I restarted both post fix and saslauthd. It then worked fine. I don't have TLS yet as I haven't got to that part of the doc. But as I said this is using 12.04 from a clean install and following that tutorial line by line. I hope this is of use to someone. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to cyrus-sasl2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/875440 Title: Cannot authenticate with saslauthd and mysql To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cyrus-sasl2/+bug/875440/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
