Bug 146267

Summary:	Authentication error when sending mails
Product:	[Unmaintained] kmail	Reporter:	PENIN Guillaume <guillaume>
Component:	sending	Assignee:	kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	1.9.7
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description PENIN Guillaume 2007-06-01 22:30:34 UTC

Version:           1.9.7 (using KDE KDE 3.5.7)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Since kde 3.5.7 upgrade, i'm unable to send emails (SMTP) and here is the output from kmail :

"An error occured during authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: No worthy mechs found"

I can check and select the authentification method (TLS, PLAIN) in the configuration Menu.

It works well with Opera, Thunderbird and Horde IMP.

Guillaume

Comment 1 Thomas McGuire 2007-06-07 19:13:45 UTC

The SASL libraries have to be installed and configured properly.
Please install them and try again.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99911 ***

Comment 2 Jan Merka 2007-06-16 15:48:15 UTC

I have the same problem with 3.5.7 compiled from sources and SASL libraries are installed (cyrus-sasl 2.1.22). What do you mean by configuring SASL properly? What do you configure there if they are just  bunch of dynamically loaded libraries?

Comment 3 Jan Merka 2007-06-16 16:08:27 UTC

Let me add to my previous comment: I did as recommended in bug 99911 (configure path in konqueror for OpenSSL and restart kmail) but sending still fails most of the time. 

I use "check what server supports" to find out what mechanism is supported and get TLS + PLAIN. But the sending fails with "Your SMTP server does not support PLAIN. Choose a different authentication method. ....". So then I try TLS+LOGIN and get the SASL error. Being desperate I have tried to switch these methods several times and surprisingly, the message gets send out occasionally. Unfortunately, I can not make kmail to send it out reliably.

Comment 4 Thomas McGuire 2007-06-18 19:22:35 UTC

Jan, your bug seems unrelated to this one, as it only fails sometimes.
Maybe your are suffering from bug 146585?

If not, please open a new bug report.