• sql_select option missing; auxpropfunc error no mechanism available

    From Hans Conreid@21:1/5 to All on Thu Mar 23 22:31:36 2023
    syslog records:

    Mar 10 13:25:09 mydomain sm-mta[717]: sql_select option missing
    Mar 10 13:25:09 mydomain sm-mta[717]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available

    What do these errors mean? How do I make them unhappen?

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  • From Claus =?iso-8859-1?Q?A=DFmann?= @21:1/5 to Hans Conreid on Fri Mar 24 03:35:31 2023
    Hans Conreid wrote:

    Mar 10 13:25:09 mydomain sm-mta[717]: sql_select option missing
    Mar 10 13:25:09 mydomain sm-mta[717]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available

    What do these errors mean? How do I make them unhappen?

    Good question... those are not part of the sm8 code.

    Probably something related to the Cyrus-SASL code,
    esp. "auxpropfunc" seems to indicate that.
    So: check your Sendmail.conf and other Cyrus-SASL related
    configurations.

    A search for "auxpropfunc" gives some hints:
    sql_select option missing auxpropfunc error no ...
    Cyrus software comes with various plugins. The cyrus-sasl-sql package contains
    the Cyrus SASL plugin which supports using a RDBMS for storing shared secrets.
    If MySQL is not being used, then remove the corresponding plugin as follows: ...


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