[CentOS] SMTP auth with Sendmail

Fri Aug 5 15:03:34 UTC 2005
Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org>

that should read "....to be running but SASL on RHEL3.4 does not, "

Peter Farrow wrote:

> >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?
>>
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