Sendmail 11.1 and error

[Fred Martin_1]

I was running Sendmail 8.9.3 until last night, when I took the upgrade from HP that brought it to version 11.1 - the notes say that you can leave the 8.9.3 sendmail.cf file in place, with a recommendation to recreate it in order to take advantage of the new features.

It was late, so I left the orginal sendmail.cf file in place.

Now I'm getting these errors in the mail.log, not on every email but on many:

sendmail[15363]: NOQUEUE: connect from out002pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.141]

sendmail[15363]: error: safesasl(/usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf) failed: No such file or directory

sendmail[15363]: error: safesasl(/etc/sasldb.dir) failed: No such file or directory

sendmail[15363]: SASL error: listmech=0, num=0

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Not sure what 'safesasl' is - any ideas?

[Helen French · Accepted solution]

This document will be helpful - TKB #KBRC00009133:

http://www1.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000062909827

[Helen French]

Also, SASL means "Simple Authentication and Security Layer"

[Paul Sperry]

Get, compile, and install cyrus-sasl


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

[Fred Martin_1]

Shiju,

Thanks that certainly explains it. Looks like I'm missing some libraries. I also read the other doc, but frankly didn't understand it :)

Fred

[Fred Martin_1]

Well to clarify, I'm missing libraries if I want to take advantage of SASL. If not, when I lower the LogLevel in sendmail.cf, the messages in mail.log will be reduced.