[CentOS] SMTP auth with Sendmail

[Mike Kercher]

centos-bounces at centos.org <> scribbled on Friday, August 05, 2005 4:53 AM:

> 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
> 
> in the logs, it doesn't even try to authenticate, the cyrus
> sasl rpm is installed for auth PLAIN
> 
> 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
> 
> The 3.4 box reports this:
> 
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated....
> 
> P.
> 
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I have to ask if you turn the saslauthd service on.  It's off by default.

Mike