“No worthy mechs found” when trying to relay email to Gmail using Postfix

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I've been trying to configure email to forward to Gmail, using Postfix to relay email to smtp.gmail.com. However, I'm failing to get it to authenticate with smtp.gmail.com, which is a rather vital prerequisite to getting anything working…

The mail logs show only:

Oct 29 15:50:14 gsnedders-1 postfix/master[6596]: daemon started -- version 2.7.1, configuration /etc/postfix
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/pickup[6598]: EBA1F78750: uid=1000 from=<gsnedders>
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/cleanup[6603]: EBA1F78750: message-id=<20111029145019.EBA1F78750@mail.gsnedders.com>
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/qmgr[6599]: EBA1F78750: from=<gsnedders@gsnedders.com>, size=324, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/cleanup[6603]: F2D557874F: message-id=<20111029145019.EBA1F78750@mail.gsnedders.com>
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/local[6605]: EBA1F78750: to=<me@gsnedders.com>, orig_to=<me>, relay=local, delay=0.04, delays=0.03/0.02/0/0, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (forwarded as F2D557874F)
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/qmgr[6599]: F2D557874F: from=<gsnedders@gsnedders.com>, size=454, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Oct 29 15:50:19 gsnedders-1 postfix/qmgr[6599]: EBA1F78750: removed
Oct 29 15:50:20 gsnedders-1 postfix/smtp[6606]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found
Oct 29 15:50:20 gsnedders-1 postfix/smtp[6606]: F2D557874F: SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server smtp.gmail.com[74.125.157.108]: no mechanism available

And the postfix config is:

relayhost = [smtp.gmail.com]:587

smtp_use_tls = yes
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/sasl/passwd
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous

smtp_tls_eccert_file =
smtp_tls_eckey_file =
smtp_tls_security_level = may
smtp_tls_CAfile = /etc/postfix/cacert.pem
smtpd_tls_received_header = yes
tls_random_source = dev:/dev/urandom
smtpd_tls_security_level = may

Best Answer

Ah-ha! Installing the libsasl2-modules package solved the problem.