Tag: sasl

  • SASL authentication no mechanism available

    When sending email from postfix mail sever that use mailgun for relaying mails, i get error

    Jan 4 03:16:06 serverok-vm postfix/qmgr[22652]: 795731A8D: from=, size=820, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
    Jan 4 03:16:06 serverok-vm postfix/smtp[24050]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found
    Jan 4 03:16:06 serverok-vm postfix/smtp[24050]: 795731A8D: SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server smtp.mailgun.org[34.237.7.101]: no mechanism available
    Jan 4 03:16:06 serverok-vm postfix/smtp[24050]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found
    Jan 4 03:16:06 serverok-vm postfix/smtp[24050]: 795731A8D: SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server smtp.mailgun.org[34.232.180.42]: no mechanism available
    Jan 4 03:16:06 serverok-vm postfix/smtp[24050]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found

    On checking postfix mail queue, the mail is stuck in queue

    root@serverok-vm:~# postqueue -p
-Queue ID- --Size-- ----Arrival Time---- -Sender/Recipient-------
795731A8D       820 Wed Jan  3 21:38:20  [email protected]
(SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server smtp.mailgun.org[54.164.235.211]: no mechanism available)
                                         [email protected]

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root@serverok-vm:~#

    The problem is fixed by installing libsasl2-modules.

    On Debian/Ubuntu

    apt-get install libsasl2-modules

    On RHEL/CentOS

    yum install cyrus-sasl-plain

    Now restart postfix.

    service postfix restart