Need help solving issue

[aki.tuomi at dovecot.fi]

> On March 25, 2016 at 6:48 PM MARIA jamieson <jamieson.maria at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, I am using Dovecot 2.2.18  and have migrated from a 1.x versions. After
> this migration I had several errors and obsolete errors in logs. I fixed them
> and after all that I finally was able to run postfix and dovecot again.
> The problem I have facing right now is that in the mail logs and in the
> dovecot logs. I am getting auth errors.
> In mail log the postfix is spitting out: " fatal: no SASL authentication
> mechanisms"
> Dovecot is spitting this out "imap-login : Auth process broken (disconnected
> before auth was ready, waited 0 secs): ,user<>, the shows client ip, my server
> ip and then the 0 seconds connection etc.
> Error: auth: environment corrupt; missing value for DOVECOT_"
> 
> That is what it spits out.  I asked for help and many threads.I am using
> freebsd 10.2.  I do use mysql for database. I need someone to explain what the
> error means and how I can fix it? 
> Thank you for your time!

Hi!

Can you provide your postconf -n and doveconf -n output?  This sounds like
configuration error.

Aki Tuomi
Dovecot Oy