nasty error messages about SQL and auxpropfunc

[IMAP List Administration]

talk to the hand?


On 05/30/2016 01:48 AM, IMAP List Administration via Info-cyrus wrote:
> Hello Folks,
>
> I'm in the process of moving my mail server from:
>
>     cyrus-imapd-2.4.17p8
>     cyrus-sasl-2.1.26p11
>
> to:
>     cyrus-imapd-2.5.7
>     cyrus-sasl-2.1.26p15
>
> My server uses /etc/sasldb2.db for authentication.
>
> In my /etc/imapd.conf file I have:
>     sasl_pwcheck_method: auxprop
>     sasl_mech_list: CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5
>
> Upon starting the new imapd server, things seem to work, but I noticed two error
> messages I have not seen before which spam up my syslog:
>     imapd/imaps[15690]: SQL engine 'mysql' not supported
>     imapd/imaps[15690]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
>
> I tried adding this to /etc/imapd.conf, in vain:
>     sasl_auxprop_plugin: sasldb
>
> I've spent a fair amount of time reading the imapd and sasl documentation.
> Google turns up similar complaints, some with "fixes". As far as I can tell, all
> the proposals for "fixing" the problem are the same: remove the sasl sql library.
>
> I did this and behold, the messages disappeared.
>
> To me this belongs in the smelly and dirty hack category. There *must* be a way
> to tell sasl not to use some plugin.
>
> Could someone please give me a hint how to do this?
>
> thanks,
> rob
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