Thanks for the input. I edited my relayhost as suggested (rebuilt the password file and reloaded postfix) with the same errors.
No, my provider doesn't support SSL or TLS for email. It's all plain text. This one is strange.... Could it be my firewall? Sean -----Original Message----- From: Willie Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 2:03 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix and no worthy mechs found On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 10:44:32PM -0500, Sean Lester wrote: > Greetings, > I am "lucky" enough to have an ISP that blocks outbound port 25 > traffic. Fortunately, inbound is wide open. However, I am not able > to configure Postfix 2.1.5 to successfully use my ISP mail server as a > relayhost. I get a reply in my logs that states: > > warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found > Authentication failed: cannot SASL authenticate to server > smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com[68.142.229.41]: no mechanism available > While whatever you posted in terms of config files looked correct, I have two quick questions: 1) What did you set as relayhost? 2) Does your provider support SSL or TLS? I ask because: [01:54 PM]wwong ~ $ nmap 68.142.229.41 Starting nmap 3.83.DC13 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-12-01 13:54 EST Interesting ports on smtp1-a.sbc.mail.vip.re2.yahoo.com (68.142.229.41): (The 1665 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: filtered) PORT STATE SERVICE 80/tcp open http 587/tcp open submission Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 48.081 seconds shows that it uses TCP 587 for mail submission as defined in RFC2476, which is slated to replace TCP 25, and uses ESMTP. You might need to set relayhost=smtp.sbcglobal.yahoo.com:587 (I am not sure since my mail providers have always only used TLS on port 25 or SSL on port 465). HTH W -- ARTHUR What is an Algolian Zylatburger anyway? FORD They're a kind of meatburger made from the most unpleasant parts of a creature well known for its total lack of any pleasant parts. ARTHUR So you mean that the Universe does actually end not with a bang but with a Wimpy? - Cut dialogue from Fit the Fifth. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 19 days, 11:16 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
