i an trying to set up kmail as my main mail program. i have set up my 2 email addresses in kmail and I can receive mail just fine. however when I try to send an email i get the error message " failed to transport message SASL(-4). no mechanism available. no worthy mechs found" I have gone into the setup for outgoing mail server and don't see anything that is obvious. any ideas??
thanks

Hello,

Do you happen to use Kubuntu?
I believe this might be a packaging issue. Make sure to have instlalled the corresponding libsasl2 packages.

I don't have a Kubuntu system at hand but I believe at least libsasl2-2 and libsasl2-modules-kdexoauth2 should be installed.

These are the packages I see from a Jammy contaner:

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root@ubuntu-jammy:/# apt-cache search sasl | sort -V | grep sasl2
cyrus-sasl2-doc - Cyrus SASL - documentation
libsasl2-2 - Cyrus SASL - authentication abstraction library
libsasl2-dev - Cyrus SASL - development files for authentication abstraction library
libsasl2-modules - Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentication modules
libsasl2-modules-db - Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentication modules (DB)
libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal - Pluggable Authentication Modules for SASL (GSSAPI)
libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit - Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentication modules (GSSAPI)
libsasl2-modules-kdexoauth2 - library to integrate with Cyrus SASL
libsasl2-modules-ldap - Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentication modules (LDAP)
libsasl2-modules-otp - Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentication modules (OTP)
libsasl2-modules-sql - Cyrus SASL - pluggable authentication modules (SQL)
sasl2-bin - Cyrus SASL - administration programs for SASL users database