The Silent Woman

[Jim Kuzdrall]

    My wife's computer can receive email, but it can't send it.  Having 
a woman who could listen but not speak seemed to have some advantages 
at first.  Don't try it.  Very, very bad idea.

    I reinstalled SuSE 9.3 after replacing the hard drive.  The install 
included a "home" level firewall using YaST2.  Everything worked fine 
until I rebooted the machine.  

    Suspecting the firewall, I removed it.  
That not working, I removed the SuSE security packages, rebooted, 
reinstalled them, rebooted, thinking the fresh config files might help.  
No change.

    I matched all the setting to those of have another computer I have 
(which is sending this email).  No help.

* * * * * * *

    KPPP dials and connects normally.  Konqueror browses the web 
normally.  Kmail downloads POP mail normally.  But when trying to send 
anything, I get:

    "Sending failed: Authorization failed, An error occurred during 
authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available; No worthy mechs 
found; authentication not supported."

     I configured the email on Mozilla and got the same message, so it 
is beyond Kmail.  What could it be?  I hate to think of reinstalling 
all of SuSE 9.3, home directory, etc.

Running: SuSE 9.3 on i686 machine
         KDE 3.4.0 level b
         Linux 2.6.11.4-21.17-default
         all available updates installed

The processes running (ps -e) while the error message is on the screen 
are:

acpid, aio/0, artsd, bash, bash, cardmgr, cpuspeed, cron, cupsd, 
dbus-daemon-1, dcopserver, events/0, gpg-agent, hald, hwscand, init, 
kaccess, kacpid, kalarmd, kblockd/0, kded, kdeinit, kdesktop, kdm, kdm, 
khelper, khpsbpkt, khubd, kicker, kio_file, kio_smtp, kjournald, 
klauncher,  klogd,  kmail,  kmix,  knotes,  knotify, konqueror,  kppp,  
kppp,  kseriod,  ksmserver,  ksoftirqd/0,  kswapd0,  kthread,  kwin,  
kwrapper,  lockd,  login,  mingetty,  nfsd,  nscd,  pccardd,  pdflush,  
portmap, powersaved,  pppd,  ps,  resmgrd,  rpciod/0,  rpc.mountd,  
smpppd,  snmpd,  sshd,  startkde, syslog-ng,  udevd,  X

    Can somebody help me make peace with my wife?

Desperate
Jim Kuzdrall