How to turn sendmail authentication off

[Cameron Beattie]

OK thanks. I am getting a message  "[127.0.0.1] did not issue
MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA" in my maillog. I thought that
was authentication related but perhaps it isn't. Any ideas what may be
causing that?

Regards

Cameron

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: How to turn sendmail authentication off


> On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:28 +1200, Cameron Beattie wrote:
>> I have been struggling with configuring sendmail without authentication. 
>> If
>> I comment out confAUTH_OPTIONS in sendmail.mc sendmail is still requiring
>> authentication.
>> sendmail.mc
>> <snip>
>> include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
>> VERSIONID(`setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
>> OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
>> dnl define ('confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
>> dnl define ('confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p')dnl
>> </snip>
>>
>> telnet localhost 25
>> ehlo localhost.localdomain
>> <snip>
>> 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
>> </snip>
>
> This is sendmail *offering* authentication. It's not *requiring* it.
>
>> I want to configure sendmail so that it will only relay mail from 
>> localhost
>> and will not require authentication. How do I turn off authentication?
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated
>
> If you have FEATURE(`access_db') and a line:
>
> 127.0.0.1                       RELAY
>
> in /etc/mail/access, it should relay mail for localhost without
> requiring authentication (and these are default settings).
>
> You don't have "M=a" or "M=Ea" in the DAEMON_OPTIONS line for your MTA,
> do you?
>
> Paul.
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