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Subject: sql_select option missing; auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
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by: Hans Conreid - Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:31 UTC

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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by: Claus Aßmann - Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:35 UTC

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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computers / comp.mail.sendmail / Re: sql_select option missing; auxpropfunc error no mechanism available

Subject	Author
sql_select option missing; auxpropfunc error no mechanism available	Hans Conreid
Re: sql_select option missing; auxpropfunc error no mechanism available	Claus Aßmann