sendmail problem

[Don Dupy]

one more thing to check

make sure your /etc/passwd file didn't get screwed up

you can change your password for your account by doing:

[root at rokit mail]# passwd user

this will change your password and that will take that out of the mix.

Don Dupy
Systems Administrator
Maxxrad PC Services
http://www.maxxrad.net
email: fedora at maxxrad.net

On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote:

> Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 18:27:
>
> First: Please do not hijack foreign threads! Do not reply to list mails
> while you want to start a new topic. Use then a new empty mail editor
> window.
>
> You mailing now appears in a "wonderfully" mixed up thread :( Within
> "FC1 mouse freezing" and "iptables problem".
>
> > OK.  I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this
> > address to michael at espersunited.com (my primary email address under my
> > domain) the mail gets returned with this error:
> >
> > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server.
> > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
> > each recipient was rejected.
> >
> >     Recipient: <michael at espersunited.com>
> >     Reason:    5.7.1 <michael at espersunited.com>... Relaying denied.
> > Proper authentication required.
>
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/relayingdenied.html
>
> > Also, whenever I try to send email from michael at espersunited.com I get
> > this error:
> >
> > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> > Bad authentication response from server.
> >
> >
> > Please enter the SMTP password for michael at smtp.espersunited.com
>
> Obviously the authentification fails. Which mechs do you allow on server
> side and which client  do you use?
>
> > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the
> > client PC, but it won't accept it.  Mail worked just fine on my server
> > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running
> > RH9.  I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC.
> > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1)
> > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's
> > /etc/mail.  What am I doing wrong?  Can anyone help me with this?
> >
> > -Michael Sullivan-
>
> You always have to start by looking at the logs. That is a general rule.
> Sendmail logs by using syslogd to /var/log/maillog. There you will find
> the information you need to solve your problem. Maybe increase the log
> level.
>
> As a wild guess - due to lacking both log file entries related to the
> problem as well as sendmail.mc settings - I assume you do not have
> saslauthd running?
>
> Alexander
>
>
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