Postfix SMTP auth doesn't work with cyrus-sasl 2.1.25

Quanah Gibson-Mount quanah at zimbra.com
Thu Jan 5 19:00:07 EST 2012


I'm curious if anyone has tested Postfix SMTP auth in conjunction with 
Cyrus-SASL 2.1.25.  My testing shows that when used linked to Cyrus-SASL 
2.1.25, SMTP auth fails with an unknown mechanism error.  Downgrading to 
Cyrus-SASL 2.1.23 with the exact same configuration and build parameters 
works as expected.

My guess is this is an bug with Cyrus-SASL 2.1.25, however it is entirely 
possible there are API changes in 2.1.25 that Postfix needs to be adjusted 
for.  I guess consider this a general heads up, and if anyone has gotten it 
to work, I'd love to know that. ;)

A 2.1.25 linked Postfix always complains about no available mechanism:

openssl s_client -connect zqa-062.eng.vmware.com:25 -starttls smtp -cipher 
AES128-SHA -crlf
EHLO foo.com
250-zqa-062.eng.vmware.com
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 10240000
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
AUTH LOGIN
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
YWRtaW4tMDYyLmVuZy52bXdhcmUuY29t
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
<encodedpasswordhere>
535 5.7.8 Error: authentication failed: no mechanism available

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
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