[CentOS] SMTP auth with Sendmail

[Peter Farrow]

 >Also, is saslauthd running?

It seems that SASLv2 on RHEL4.1 REQUIRES saslauthd to be running but 
SASL on RHELv1 does not,

so a

service saslauthd start
chkconfig --level 345 saslauthd on

did the trick...

P.
Ps:  I also found this very useful
http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/smtpauth.html


Paul Heinlein wrote:

> On 8/5/05 2:52 AM, Peter Farrow wrote:
>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I have two machines, a Centos 3.4 machine and a Centos 4.1 machine.
>> I have used the same sendmail.mc file on each, and 3.4 machine does 
>> plain SMTP auth with no problems, compiling the same mc file on the 
>> 4.1 machine gives this error:
>>
>> xxxxx [x.x.x.x] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection 
>> to MTA
>
>
> I usually see that message when the SSL/TLS handshake failed in some 
> way. Can you get a good connection to sendmail using openssl?
>
> # openssh s_client -connect your.mail.host:25 -starttls smtp
>
>> It reports this from the EHLO so all looks good:
>> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>> 250-PIPELINING
>> 250-8BITMIME
>> 250-SIZE
>> 250-DSN
>> 250-ETRN
>> 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
>> 250-DELIVERBY
>> 250 HELP
>
>
> Hmm. It'd be helpful to know your authentication chain:
>
> 1. The contents of /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf
>
> 2. The contents of $MECH in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd
>
> Also, is saslauthd running?
>