On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 10:39 AM, <me at tdiehl.org> wrote: >>> >>> Seems I've found that dovecot is handling the auth for smtp, and it >>> doesn't like sendmail very much since their documentation avoids >>> sendmail like the plague. > > The Dovecot developer is a smart dude. :-) > >> None of that makes any sense. Dovecot should have nothing to do with >> smtp, so of course it doesn't have anything about sendmail in its >> documentation other than adding its local delivery agent which should >> be their only interaction and you probably don't even need to use >> that. > > Actually it might. Dovecot can do the sasl auth part. I have not touched > sendmail in at least 10 years, so I do not know anything about the current > default sendmail config but I know dovecot sasl auth is easier to config > for postfix (5 lines in the postfix main.cf IIRC). > > I suppose it is possible that RH switched sendmail to user dovecot sasl > in their default config. Sendmail is infinitely configurable, but I don't see any uncommented Auth schemes in the stock sendmail.mc and the smtp-sendmail file in pam.d just invokes 'system-auth' on 5.x and 'password-auth' on 6.x, like most of the other things. Something else must be going on here. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com