topic Re: Problem after SMTP AUTH in Operating System - Linux

Problem after SMTP AUTH

Amod — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:48:40 GMT

Hello All,

We have recently introduced SMTP AUTH on our smtp server. But everything is not working as we expected them to work.

After the AUTH was enabled mails from the smtp server (root@smtp.xxx.co.in) are getting blocked due to Authentication failure.

I have attached the sendmail.cf file with this message.

Can someone throw some light ?

Cheers,
Amod.

Re: Problem after SMTP AUTH

Patrick Van Humbeeck — Tue, 30 Sep 2003 09:12:03 GMT

does it help if you add the smtp server's FQDN in /etc/mail/relay-domains ?

Re: Problem after SMTP AUTH

Amod — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 23:38:02 GMT

Yeh Patrick I tried that but no help. My SMTP still asks for Authentication even for local users like root, majordomo etc

Amod.

Re: Problem after SMTP AUTH

Patrick Van Humbeeck — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 00:56:34 GMT

and how about adding all needed IP addresses in your access database file ?
it should work if you put entries like
127.0.0.1 RELAY
...

(don't forget to regenerate the db file afterwards, dont remember the syntax on top of my head but it's something like makemap -hash < textfile >/etc/mail/access )

also when you say local mail does not get thru, is that mail sent using the sendmail command locally or by speaking to localhost on the smtp port ?

Re: Problem after SMTP AUTH

Amod — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:25:00 GMT

Patrick,

I already have follwoing entries in the /etc/mail/access

localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY

Is there anything wrong in my sendmail.cf ? I have attached it to my original message.

Amod.

Re: Problem after SMTP AUTH

Patrick Van Humbeeck — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:56:59 GMT

well, I cannot compare it with mine as I cannot connect to my server from here but I got SMTP auth working fine on sendmail (took me a while too :) so if you still cannot get it working I'll compare our config files later when I get a chance.

As for the access file, you did the makemap thing, right ?

what are the error messages you get when a mail bounces, just 'Authentication required' ? I guess you tried increasing the log level already ..

Re: Problem after SMTP AUTH

Balaji N — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 12:14:03 GMT

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html#AUTH

did u read this?
-balaji