STMP Auth Failure

[Paul Howarth]

rcurts at robincurts.com wrote:
> I hope I am posting to the correct list.
> 
> I have been trying to set up SMTP and POP3 on a FC3 installation. I have
> pop3 working fine and can download my email using outlook or thunderbird.
> 
> Sending email is a different story. I have read about 50 web pages about
> setting up smtp authentication and they all say (generally) the same
> thing, but don't help me out.  I am getting relaying denied errors when I
> try to send any email from Outlook or Thunderbird.
> 
> I CAN send mail to <my_username>@<hostname_of_box>.com ... but if i send
> to an outside domain I get the error.
> 
> The AUTH section of my sendmail.mc file:
> 
> define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
> PLAIN')dnl
> 
> When I get a mail failure i get this from /var/log/maillog:
> 
> Feb  4 11:59:34 localhost pop3-login: Login: rcurts [::ffff:4.8.55.148]
> Feb  4 11:59:36 localhost sendmail[7892]: j14GxW9N007892:
> from=<rcurts at intrastudios.com>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=[4.8.55.148]
> 
> 
> I put up my sendmail.mc at
> http://www.intrastudios.com/docs/sendmail.mc.txt in case someone had a
> thought of something that might be wrong in that file.
> 
> I hope someone has a suggestion. :)

What do you have in /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf ?

I have:

pwcheck_method: auxprop
mech_list: CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5

and I set up SMTP AUTH accounts using:

# saslpasswd2 -a Sendmail -c -u <server-hostname> <username>

Paul.