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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