No secret in database (problems trying to send email usingThunderbird)

[Debbie Deutsch]

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> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 2:10 PM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: No secret in database (problems trying to send 
> email usingThunderbird)
> 
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 13:00 -0400, Debbie Deutsch wrote:
> > My system is running FC3 (upgraded from RH9) and is not 
> relaying email 
> > that is originated on the same host by Thunderbird.  Can 
> anyone help?  
> > After a few days of trying to get this to work, I am stumped.  The 
> > symptom is I get asked for a password, which I supply correctly.  
> > Sendmail logs an error message "No secret in database".
> 
> Have you recently installed an updated sendmail package by any chance?
> That may have clobbered your access database. You could try rebuilding
> it:
> 
> # cd /etc/mail
> # rm *.db
> # make
> 
> Paul.
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Yes, sendmail was updated as part of the upgrade.  When I added the line
that said <localhost IP address> RELAY that should have caused a new db to
be made when I restarted sendmail immediately afterwards.  Thanks for the
suggestion, though.

Debbie