FC5 sendmail no AUTH?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Sun Apr 9 10:11:12 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 23:52 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I'm setting up my mail server on my new FC5 installation and I don't 
> get any SMTP AUTH.  The sendmail.mc file has 
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN)dnl
> but if I telnet into my sendmail or run it from the command line with 
> -bs -Am I still don't get any 250-AUTH.  The maillog shows AUTH 
> warning: no mechnisms.  I've remade the sendmail.cf file and 
> restarted sendmail and saslauthd.  I've created a valid user with 
> saslpasswd2 and I can see it with sasldblistusers2.
> 
> Is sendmail as it comes not compiled for SMTP AUTH?  Could the sasl 
> libraries not be in the right place (/usr/lib/sasl2)?  This all 
> worked just fine on my FC3 machine that I'm trying to replace.

Do you have the cyrus-sasl-md5 and cyrus-sasl-plain packages installed?

Paul.




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