[Dovecot] fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

Ebbe Hjorth ebbe.hjorth at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 13:24:52 EEST 2009


Hi,

I have setup freebsd, postfix, dovecot and maia, but all the time i get the
following error in /var/log/maillog - and i cant google me to the solution,
please advice.


Aug  9 12:18:49 mail02 dovecot: auth(default): Authentication client trying
to connect to master socket
Aug  9 12:18:49 mail02 postfix/smtpd[1356]: fatal: no SASL authentication
mechanisms
Aug  9 12:18:50 mail02 postfix/master[777]: warning: process
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd pid 1355 exit status 1
Aug  9 12:18:50 mail02 postfix/master[777]: warning:
/usr/local/libexec/postfix/smtpd: bad command startup -- throttling
Aug  9 12:18:50 mail02 amavis[834]: (00834-04) mail_via_smtp: 450 4.4.1
Can't connect to 127.0.0.1 port 10025, Bad file descriptor at
/usr/local/sbin/amavisd-maia line 6599, <GEN12> line 229., id=00834-04

mail02# dovecot -n
# 1.1.16: /usr/local/etc/dovecot.conf
# OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 i386  ufs
protocols: imap imaps pop3 pop3s
ssl_cert_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/cert.pem
ssl_key_file: /etc/ssl/dovecot/key.pem
disable_plaintext_auth: no
login_dir: /var/run/dovecot/login
login_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap-login
login_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3-login
login_greeting: Apz.dk mail server ready.
login_greeting_capability(default): yes
login_greeting_capability(imap): yes
login_greeting_capability(pop3): no
verbose_proctitle: yes
first_valid_uid: 125
last_valid_uid: 125
first_valid_gid: 125
last_valid_gid: 125
mail_privileged_group: mail
mail_location: maildir:/usr/local/virtual/%d/%n
mail_executable(default): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(imap): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/imap
mail_executable(pop3): /usr/local/libexec/dovecot/pop3
mail_plugin_dir(default): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(imap): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/imap
mail_plugin_dir(pop3): /usr/local/lib/dovecot/pop3
imap_client_workarounds(default): delay-newmail netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(imap): delay-newmail netscape-eoh
tb-extra-mailbox-sep
imap_client_workarounds(pop3):
pop3_client_workarounds(default):
pop3_client_workarounds(imap):
pop3_client_workarounds(pop3): outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
auth default:
  mechanisms: plain login
  username_format: %Lu
  passdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  userdb:
    driver: sql
    args: /usr/local/etc/dovecot-sql.conf
  socket:
    type: listen
    client:
      path: /var/run/dovecot/auth-client
      mode: 432
    master:
      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode: 432
      user: postfix
      group: postfix


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