From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I updated to Taroon Update 2 using up2date. Afterwards, SMTP plain authentication was no longer working. In order to get it working, I had to copy the file /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail to /etc/pam.d/smtp and restart sendmail and saslauthd services. FYI, I do not have Postfix installed on the system. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sendmail-8.12.11-3, cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-8 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Update to Taroon Update 2 2. Try to send mail using SMTP Plain authentication 3. Client keeps popping up password box 4. Cancellation results in "did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA" in /var/log/maillog 5. cp /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail /etc/pam.d/smtp and restart sendmail and saslauthd to solve the problem. Actual Results: SMTP auth works as expected. Additional info:
It looks like these symlinks are not getting set on upgrade to sendmail-8.12.11-3 from pre-RHEL 3 Update 2 sendmail: /etc/pam.d/smtp -> /etc/alternatives/mta-pam /etc/alternatives/mta-pam -> /etc/pam.d/smtp.sendmail Alternatives seems to know about them, though, and redhat-switch-mail or 'alternatives --config mta' do set them correctly if run.
Please call /usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail There was an error in the old sendmail package.
*** Bug 123173 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
FWIW , this also breaks loks of perl libs that require /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/sbin/alternatives --set mta /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail fixes them too. Thanks Thomas!
Have the corresponding sendmail RPM(s) been removed, including the errata? Can't find it on RHN...
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-221.html