The Silent Woman

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Wed Apr 2 10:41:05 EDT 2008


On 04/02/2008 10:29 AM, Jim Kuzdrall wrote:
>     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."
>   
That means that saslauthd is not installed or at least not running.

Is the local system the SMTP server, or are you using a remote system 
for that?

-Mark


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