Problem of SMTP AUTH

Nalin Dahyabhai nalin at redhat.com
Tue Mar 20 15:49:35 UTC 2007


On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:40:15PM +0800, edwardspl at ita.org.mo wrote:
> /etc/mail/sendmail.mc :
> 
> dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 
> LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> 
> login as: edward
> edward at 192.168.0.1's password:
> Last login: Tue Mar 20 23:06:34 2007 from 192.168.0.250
> [edward at svr1 ~]$ telnet localhost 25
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 220 svr1.ita.org.mo ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 
> 23:21:26 +0800
> ehlo localhost
> 250-svr1.ita.org.mo Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to 
> meet you
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250-8BITMIME
> 250-SIZE
> 250-DSN
> 250-ETRN
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
> 250-DELIVERBY
> 250 HELP
> 
> [svradmin at svr1 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep "cyrus"
> cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4
> cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.22-4
> cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.22-4
> cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.22-4
> [svradmin at svr1 ~]$
> 
> Use outlook express or netscape though the SMTP with correct password is 
> fail....
> So, What problem of it ?

The plugins which implement CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 are in the
"cyrus-sasl-md5" package.  Install that, and you should be good to go.

HTH,

Nalin




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