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troubleshooting-centos-7-postfix-amazon-ses
# Error message
$ tail -f /var/log/maillog
Dec 6 06:06:16 prdmgtjmp01 postfix/smtp[17822]: 0B11CC41153: to=<x@gmail.com>, relay=email-smtp.us-west2.amazonaws.com[35.162.44.160]:587, delay=4.2, delays=0.03/0.04/4.2/0, dsn=4.7.0, status=deferred (SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com[35.162.44.160]: no mechanism available)
Dec 6 06:11:04 prdmgtjmp01 postfix/qmgr[17814]: 9CA16C43607: from=<root@>, size=466, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Dec 6 06:11:05 prdmgtjmp01 postfix/smtp[17830]: 78F56C41157: SASL authentication failed; cannot authenticate to server email-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com[52.10.113.69]: no mechanism available
Dec 6 06:11:05 prdmgtjmp01 postfix/smtp[17829]: warning: SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found
# Solution:
$ yum install cyrus-sasl{,-plain}
# Try again:
$ yum install mailx
$ echo "Just testing." | mail -s "Test Subject" myacc@email.com
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