fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms

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Mailserver running postfix & dovecot with amavis for anti virus/spam scanning on OS 11.3 64-bit

When I saw the no SASL auth error I thought it might be a dovecot problem, but it appears to be amavis that’s the issue

I have the following errors in /var/log/mail.err

postfix/smtpd[3725]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
postfix/smtpd[3763]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
postfix/smtpd[3824]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
postfix/smtpd[4009]: fatal: no SASL authentication mechanisms
amavis[3265]: (!!)TROUBLE in pre_loop_hook: db_init: BDB no dbQ: __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit (100) exceeded, File exists. at (eval 96) line 306.
amavis[3207]: (!!)TROUBLE in pre_loop_hook: db_init: BDB no dbQ: __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit (100) exceeded, File exists. at (eval 96) line 306.
amavis[4439]: (!!)TROUBLE in pre_loop_hook: db_init: BDB no dbQ: __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit (100) exceeded, File exists. at (eval 96) line 306.
amavis[4724]: (!!)TROUBLE in pre_loop_hook: db_init: BDB no dbQ: __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit (100) exceeded, File exists. at (eval 96) line 306.
amavis[3262]: (!!)TROUBLE in pre_loop_hook: db_init: BDB no dbQ: __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit (100) exceeded, File exists. at (eval 96) line 306.

Never seen that before, looks like it could be a db error maybe?

I’ve done some googling and about all I could find is that it may be something to do with spamassassin’s training database

I do also have this one popping up in mail.log but I don’t think it’s related:

postfix/smtp[20887]: warning: database /etc/postfix/relay.db is older than source file /etc/postfix/relay

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Does seem to be a database problem, get this when I try restarting amavis

/etc/init.d/amavis start
(stale amavisd pid file /var/spool/amavis/amavisd.pid found, removing. Did amavisd crash?)Starting virus-scanner (amavisd-new):

Then right at the end of the amavis startup output in /var/log/mail.log:

Creating db in /var/spool/amavis/db/; BerkeleyDB 0.42, libdb 4.5
May  5 14:34:57 godzooky amavis[21007]: (!!)TROUBLE in pre_loop_hook: db_init: BDB no dbQ: __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit (100) exceeded, File exists. at (eval 96) line 306.
May  5 14:34:57 godzooky amavis[21007]: (!)_DIE: Suicide () TROUBLE in pre_loop_hook: db_init: BDB no dbQ: __fop_file_setup:  Retry limit (100) exceeded, File exists. at (eval 96) line 306.

So amavis is crashing on: Creating db in /var/spool/amavis/db/

No idea what I can do about that so any suggestions welcome

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Seems to be fixed, I did this

cd /var/spool/amavis
mv db/ db_bak
mkdir db
/etc/init.d/amavis start

Started without error, just waiting to see what happens when some mails come in now