From: Patrick Ben Koetter (pstate-of-mind.de)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 13:53:55 CDT

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* alanpatriot.net <alanpatriot.net>:
> With the upgrade from an Ancient Debian to merely a Middle-aged one, I
> got of course a new version of postfix.
>
> I had been using postfix as my MTA from my home machine to the outside
> world, using the machine smtp.patriot.net as my relayhost. My postfix at
> home is configured so that all mail goes out through this smart-host, and
> appears to come from alanpatriot.net , and mail to me goes to the
> PatriotNet system. I bring it home using fetchmail.
>
> This has worked from me for several years. I had some difficulties a couple
> of years ago, when PatriotNet installed SASL authentification, but after some
> experimentation, some modules installed, and some counseling<g>, I got the
> authentification working.
>
> But this seems now to be broken. I try to send out E-mail and a call to
> mailq reveals the message:
> (SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server
> smtp.patriot.net[209.249.176.3]: no mechanism available)

ls /usr/lib/sasl2

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The Book of Postfix
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saslfinger (debugging SMTP AUTH):
<http://postfix.state-of-mind.de/patrick.koetter/saslfinger/>

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