Understanding Sendmail/Cyrus-imap installation... AAAAAHHHHH!!!
Mark Weaver
mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Wed Jan 19 17:32:08 UTC 2005
Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
>
>> I've tried setting this line a two different ways.
>> Other DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1,
>> Name=MTA')dnl yields an SMTP connection refused message.
>>
>> Other DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=25,Addr=192.168.0.4,
>> Name=MTA')dnl yields a password dialog box from the client that
>> isn't accepted by the service on the other end. Which is exactly why
>> I've been chasing my tail as I have.
>
>
> You should be fine with DAEMON_OPTIONS commented (just insert dnl at the
> beggining of the line). Unless of course you know what you are doing,
> and you really want to limit sendmail to listen only on 192.168.0.4:25.
>
> If you are getting password dialog box, and you haven't enabled user
> authentication in sendmail.mc, check you mail client settings. Make
> sure "server requires username and password" is not set. User
> authentication section in stock Fedora sendmail.mc is not enabled by
> default.
This is what was causing me the problems. I need to make my morning
coffee stronger it appears.
> If you do want to have user authentication, check if you uncommented all
> required lines for it in stock sendmail.mc (commented by default), and
> that everything is the way it should be. Not sure if you'd also need
> saslauthd running (check what you have in /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf).
> If you do, check if you configured saslauthd correctly
> (/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd), and if it is running or not.
>
> Also note that (if you enable default auth config in sendmail.mc),
> plain/login is allowed only over TLS. Make sure "use SSL/TLS" check box
> is also checked in your mail client in this case (or allow plain/login
> on cleartext link in sendmail.mc).
>
Very good info...thank you.
--
Mark
"If you have found a very wise man, then you've found
a man that at one time was an idiot and lived long enough
to learn from his own stupidity."
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