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

[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Friday, January 06, 2012 12:00 PM -0800 Quanah Gibson-Mount 
<quanah at zimbra.com> wrote:

>> Do you see anything useful in your syslog's auth facility output? Try
>> increasing your log_level:
>>
>> log_level: 7
>
> I'll set this as well.

This didn't show anything new:

Jan  6 12:37:52 zre-ldap002 postfix/smtpd[6002]: connect from 
zre-ldap002.eng.vmware.com[10.137.242.52]
Jan  6 12:37:52 zre-ldap002 postfix/smtpd[6002]: setting up TLS connection 
from zre-ldap002.eng.vmware.com[10.137.242.52]
Jan  6 12:37:52 zre-ldap002 postfix/smtpd[6002]: Anonymous TLS connection 
established from zre-ldap002.eng.vmware.com[10.137.242.52]: TLSv1 with 
cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)
Jan  6 12:38:04 zre-ldap002 zmmailboxdmgr[6281]: status requested
Jan  6 12:38:04 zre-ldap002 zmmailboxdmgr[6281]: status OK
Jan  6 12:38:06 zre-ldap002 postfix/smtpd[6002]: warning: 
zre-ldap002.eng.vmware.com[10.137.242.52]: SASL LOGIN authentication 
failed: no mechanism available

Other people have definitely been encountering this problem as well:

<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=392761>
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cyrus-sasl2/+bug/875440>

--Quanah

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