Sendmail SMTP Auth problems (Was IP forwarding: Thanks Mr.Burger/Mr. Stefan)

[Steve Phillips]

On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Vipul Ramani wrote:

> hi Steve,
>
> define(`SMART_HOST', `yourdomain.com`)dnl in sendmail.mc file create
> sendmail.cf file using m4 n also put entry in /etc/mail/access file
>
> localhost RELAY
> 127.0.0.1 RELAY
> and restart sendmail and check it .
> also check when sendmail is running can u give telnet localhost 25
> will u get sendmail greetings or not .i hope it will work.
>

I wasn't interested in getting SMTP authentication to work, NV was, and 
adding a smarthost provider and entries to enable relaying wont help turn 
on the SMTP auth system, especially when the error is a DSN saying that 
the service was unavailable (relaying denied messages tend to be more 
specific - i.e - 550 Relay Denied - or there abouts.)

This is why I asked for the logs, as the logs should elebarate more as to 
_why_ the DSN responded with "service unavailable" which tends to indicate 
that an attempt to spawn a subprocess failed (i.e - a subprocess to check 
an SASL encrypted password)

NV : this is part of the confusion that is created when responding to a 
post with content that is completely unrelated to the original.

-- 
Steve.