[CentOS] Up to date guide/information Sendmail SMTP Auth

Am 08.03.2017 um 22:57 schrieb Mark Weaver:
> On 03/08/2017 11:00 AM, Paul Heinlein wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Mar 2017, Mark Weaver wrote:

>> I wrote this article years ago:
>>
>> https://www.madboa.com/geek/sendmail-auth/

> Hi Paul,
>
> I followed your guide to the letter, however I think it seems I missed
> something. When I test with telnet to port 25 this is the result:
>
>> telnet merlin 25
> Trying 10.10.3.6...
> Connected to merlin.ciss.local.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 mdw1982.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.14.7/8.13.8; Wed, 8 Mar 2017 16:53:31

That makes your mistake obvious: the .cf version is 8.13.8 - it does not 
match the Sendmail version 8.14.7. So you did not build the sendmail.cf 
from the modified sendmail.mc.

Make sure you have run "yum install sendmail-cf" so that "cd /etc/mail; 
make" can do what it should do.

> -0500
> ehlo merlin
> 250-mdw1982.com Hello [10.10.3.102], pleased to meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
>> auth login
> 504 5.3.3 AUTH mechanism login not available
>
> thoughts?

Alexander