Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 112507
Sendmail SMTP AUTH fails
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:06:59 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: I have set up sendmail authentication on previous releases or Redhat (notably 8 and 9) with absolutely no problems. I followed the guidelines offered here at www.simpaticus.com/linus/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 8.12.10-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Follow link provided above. 2. Try to send mail with a client setup with SMTP Authentications 3. BINGO! Actual Results: Client can't authenticate. It just gets asked/re-asked for its password over and over. This shows up in the maillog when client finally stops trying to send. Dec 21 11:34:48 fresca sendmail[16571]: aldfjdsakfjadkjdf: [192.168.1.103] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA Expected Results: Client will authenticate and send mail to expected address. Additional info: This method has worked perfectly until now with Enterprise ES 3. Clients are set up correctly, sendmail is set up correctly. Either sasl or pam are not cooperating and I can't figure out which. I have added the /etc/pam.d/smtp file as well as the /usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf and /usr/lib/sasl/smtpd.conf files. Still the same results after restarting services. I noticed 8.12.10 uses sasldb2 instead of sasldb. However, adding the Sendmail.conf and smtpd.conf files to usr/lib/sasl2 seemed to do nothing different.
Oops! Noticed a typo in the link. Here's the right one... www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.html
exactly same problem here. using sendmail 8.12.10-1.1.1 worked before on RH9 with sendmail 8.12.8
well, found out what was causing the problem.. saslauthd was not running :P so /etc/init.d/saslauthd start fixed the problem for me /BR
I did have saslauthd running, but the problem ended up being that cyrus-sasl-devel package was not installed at initial installation. It only gets installed if you choose the "Development" packages. I also updated to the 2.1.17 sasl2 libs. Between the two of them, I stopped getting the "unknown password verifier" error message in the messages log. So...it's up and running now. Perhaps making the cyrus-sasl-devel packages install with sendmail would be a good idea? Thanks! Corey
I have installed sendmail-8.12.11-3 ( src file ) ( found in http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/SRPMS/3.0E/ ) After buiding the package, the SMTP_AUTH with pam doesn't work. The link /etc/pam.d/smtp -> /etc/alternatives/mta-pam doesn't exist. If I create this link, SMTP_AUTH with pam work. Thierry.