Bug 97114 – KMail error, cannot send mail using TLS+PLAIN

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Pablo Osers 2005-06-26 06:52:51 UTC]

I have read all of the bugs reported i know it seem a duplicate but i have 
done everything it says and i havent been able to set it up rigth... 
 
I get the following error when trying to send mail over TSL+PLAIN.. i have all 
cyrus-sasl packages installed.. 
 
Sending failed: 
Authorization failed, An error occured during authentication: SASL(-4): no 
mechanism available: No worthy mechs found authentication not supported 
The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem 
(e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. 
The following transport protocol was used: 
gmail 
 
Thanks 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install KDE-3.4.1 split ebuilds   
2.Configure KMail for gmail's smtp   
3.Send mail (receive mail works)   
   
Actual Results:  
KMail Error: 
Sending failed: 
Authorization failed, An error occured during authentication: SASL(-4): no 
mechanism available: No worthy mechs found authentication not supported 
The message will stay in the 'outbox' folder until you either fix the problem 
(e.g. a broken address) or remove the message from the 'outbox' folder. 
The following transport protocol was used: 
gmail 

Expected Results:  
Being able to send mails

[Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2005-07-09 08:06:44 UTC]

Have you tried the advices here? 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99911 
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97139 
 
Have you tried recompiling cyrus-sasl, to make sure the libraries 
in /usr/lib/sasl2 do not have broken dependencies? 
 

[Comment 2 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-07-09 08:30:40 UTC]

I have at least one email account using tls+plain and it works absolutely fine.
Just ssl/cram-md5 will never be fixed as it seems.


>i have all cyrus-sasl packages installed.. 

What do you mean with all? The existing versions are all in the same slot, so
you  should have exactly one version installed.

[Comment 3 Pablo Osers 2005-07-18 18:41:12 UTC]

Yes i have tried everything... i dont have errors compiling cyrus-sasl... i 
dont know what the problem might be.. 
 
thanks for your answers by the way 
Pablo 

[Comment 4 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2006-04-07 08:17:42 UTC]

Is this still a problem for you with KDE 3.5.2?

[Comment 5 Alejandro Araiza Alvarado 2006-07-13 09:12:47 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Is this still a problem for you with KDE 3.5.2?
> 

Well I dunno about the original poster but I just started noticing this in my Kmail 3.5.3 Not sure what broke this since its been a couple of weeks and several updates since my last mail sent out using Gmail with Kmail.

[Comment 6 Darren Dale 2006-08-03 08:18:47 UTC]

I just updated from kde-3.5.3 to 3.5.4, and now I cant send mail using TLS+PLAIN. I didn't have problems before this update, and haven't changed any configs. I get a different error message than the original poster:

Sending failed:
The attempt to start sending the message content failed. The server responded: "5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)"

I've tried remerging cyrus-sasl and kmail. revdep-rebuild didn't identify any problems.

[Comment 7 Darren Dale 2006-08-03 08:27:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #6)
> I just updated from kde-3.5.3 to 3.5.4, and now I cant send mail using
> TLS+PLAIN. I didn't have problems before this update

I don't know what happened, but suddenly things are working again. Sorry for the noise. I think maybe I had a corrupted message at the top of the outgoing que.

[Comment 8 Charlie Shepherd (RETIRED) 2007-02-09 17:37:32 UTC]

(In reply to comment #7)
> I don't know what happened, but suddenly things are working again. Sorry for
> the noise. I think maybe I had a corrupted message at the top of the outgoing
> que.

Closing as fixed.