From: mouss (moussnetoyen.net)
Date: Tue Apr 01 2008 - 17:43:15 CDT

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Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> [snip]
> All I get is this:
>
> $ telnet smtp.patriot.net 587
> EHLO gw.state-of-mind.de
> 554 jefferson.patriot.net ESMTP not accepting messages
> 250-jefferson.patriot.net Hello gw.state-of-mind.de [62.245.202.194], pleased to meet you
> 250 ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> QUIT
>

here's what I get (server IP is 209.249.176.3. do you see the same?)

...
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 25000000
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP

> If you get that too, then truly no mechanism is available and that would
> match your error message:
>
> (SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server
> smtp.patriot.net[209.249.176.3]: no mechanism available)
>
> Interestingly I couldn't find the string "no mechanism available" in the
> Postfix 2.5.1 code. My guess is, its Cyrus SASL complaining about the absence
> of SASL mechs. At least src/smtp/smtp_sasl_glue.c lets me think its Cyrus
> SASL. But that's pure speculation; I can't program and can't read code well
> either. ;)
>
> prick
>
>

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