On Wednesday 12 Aug 2009 7:57:42 am satyaakam goswami wrote:
> > Aug 11 05:49:04 Debian-50-lenny-32-minimal postfix/smtpd[1390]: fatal: no
> > SASL authentication mechanisms
> >
> > no amount of googling has helped. Any clues
>
> looks like SASL is missing
>
> http://www.linuxmail.info/postfix-smtp-auth-dovecot-sasl/


I am not a total moron - of course SASL is not missing. I have been doing this 
install hundreds of times since circa 1996, and last did it on lenny a few 
months back. I finally copied a dovecot.conf file from my previous lenny 
install 
and it worked. A diff of the the two files shows

path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master in socket listen client in my new install 
whereas it should be
path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth

it works ok now
-- 
regards
kg
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