Re: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

[James Lockie]

On 01/18/15 09:07, Edgar Pettijohn wrote:
>
>>> better make a bugreport at your distribution
>>> https://www.google.at/search?q=postfix+debian+chroot+problems
>> Assuming this is Debian, there's no bug report needed. It's an intentional 
>> maintainer choice and not a bug.
>>
>> Scott K
>>
> I think its default in a lot of distros.  I know it is in openbsd and I'm 
> pretty sure freebsd also.
>
What would cause the "warning: SASL: Connect to /var/spool/postfix/private/auth 
failed: No such file or directory" to come back after working for a while?
I had to restart dovecot and  postfix,
Is there any postfix debug tool like doveadm that I can run to test 
authentication?