On 9/12/10 10:28 AM Giles Coochey wrote: > Well, yes, my sendmail.cf is configured via sendmail.mc... which makes it > pretty easy... ok, I retourned to mc Files. dnl # guaranteed secure. dnl # Please remember that saslauthd needs to be running for AUTH. dnl # define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl restarted sendmail and checked sendmail.cf Now, but I'm still missing the "250-AUTH". I think this will be my problem. [root at mail mail]# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. 220 mail.<ourdomain>.at ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Sun, 12 Sep 2010 11:05:34 +0200 ehlo localhost 250-mail.<ourdomain>.at Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-PIPELINING 250-8BITMIME 250-SIZE 250-DSN 250-ETRN 250-DELIVERBY 250 HELP quit saslauthd is running. [root at mail mail]# ps -ef |grep -i sasl root 29633 1 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam root 29635 29633 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam root 29636 29633 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam root 29637 29633 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam root 29638 29633 0 10:03 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a pam SASL is compiled in: [root at mail mail]# sendmail -d0.1 < /dev/null Version 8.13.8 Compiled with: DNSMAP HESIOD HES_GETMAILHOST LDAPMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF SOCKETMAP STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB USE_LDAP_INIT it makes me stupid .... many thanks Richard