[Dovecot] fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

e-frog e-frog at gmx.de
Sun Aug 9 14:21:43 EEST 2009


Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
> 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

>   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
>

Postfix needs to connect to the *client* socket not the *master* socket.
At the end it should look like this:

    client:
      path: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth
      mode: 432
      user: postfix
      group: postfix



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