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gsnedders
Asked: 2011-10-30 07:06:28 +0800 CST

"No worthy mechs found" when trying to relay email to Gmail using Postfix

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I've been trying to configure email to forward to Gmail, using Postfix to relay email to smtp.gmail.com. However, I'm failing to get it to authenticate with smtp.gmail.com, which is a rather vital prerequisite to getting anything working…

The mail logs show only:

Oct 29 15:50:14 gsnedders-1 postfix/master[6596]: daemon started -- version 2.7.1, configuration /etc/postfix
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/pickup[6598]: EBA1F78750: uid=1000 from=<gsnedders>
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/cleanup[6603]: EBA1F78750: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/qmgr[6599]: EBA1F78750: from=<[email protected]>, size=324, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/cleanup[6603]: F2D557874F: message-id=<[email protected]>
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/local[6605]: EBA1F78750: to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<me>, relay=local, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0.02/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (forwarded as F2D557874F)
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/qmgr[6599]: F2D557874F: from=<[email protected]>, size=454, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/qmgr[6599]: EBA1F78750: removed
Oct 29 15:50:20 gsnedders-1 postfix/smtp[6606]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found
Oct 29 15:50:20 gsnedders-1 postfix/smtp[6606]: F2D557874F: SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server smtp.gmail.com[74.125.157.108]: no mechanism available

And the postfix config is:

relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587

smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

smtp_tls_eccert_file =
smtp_tls_eckey_file =
smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
smtpd_tls_security_level = may
postfix sasl

5 Answers

  1. Ah-ha! Installing the libsasl2-modules package solved the problem.

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  2. Running

    sudo yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-lib cyrus-sasl-plain

    helped me on Amazon AWS server.

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  3. sudo yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-lib cyrus-sasl-plain

    worked for me with Gmail relay setup (CentOS 7)

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  4. I was getting this issue(tail -f /var/log/mailog):

    to=<[email protected]>, relay=smtp.sendgrid.net[169.45.113.201]:587, delay=0.3, delays=0.05/0.07/0.16/0.02, dsn=5.0.0, status=bounced (host smtp.sendgrid.net[169.45.113.201] said: 550 Unauthenticated senders not allowed (in reply to MAIL FROM command))

    Then i changed file /etc/postfix/main.cf in this way that added following lines into end of file

    mtpd_sasl_local_domain = $myhostname
smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_sasl_authenticated, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination
mailbox_size_limit = 256000000

# Sendgrid Settings
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = static:apikey:SG.YOUR_SENDGRID_KEY
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
smtp_tls_security_level = may
header_size_limit = 4096000
relayhost = [smtp.sendgrid.net]:587

    Then Installing postfix missing module dependency using: 

    sudo yum install cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-lib cyrus-sasl-plain

    Then restarting postfix 

    sudo systemctl restart  postfix.service

    Finally it works on centos 7

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  5. Setting up following environment variable worked for me:

    SASL_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sasl2

    (this is for Ubuntu).

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