Re: Looking for Gerry Doris--SMTP AUTH Questions

From: Gerry Doris (gdoris_at_rogers.com)
Date: 12/20/03

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Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:59:39 -0500 (EST)

    On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Corey Head wrote:

    > Hello!
    >
    > I read the Gerry Doris article on
    >
    > www.linux-works.org/sxs/internet_serving/smailauth.html
    >
    > on Sendmail Authentication a while back when I was brand new to sendmail. I
    > learned a lot reading it and got sendmail authentication up and running in
    > no time at all on my RedHat9 box running sendmail 8.12.8.
    >
    > However, I'm running into MAJOR trouble with the exact same configurations
    > outlined in the article on RedHat Enterprise ES with sendmail 8.12.10. Any
    > changes you might know about that would make your setup not work? On the
    > 8.12.10 box, the clients get asked/re-asked for their usernames and
    > passwords over and over. Plus, the maillog gets:
    >
    > Dec 19 16:39:04 fresca sendmail[28036]: hBK0d4mS028036: [192.168.1.103] did
    > not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
    >
    > The article is dated 3/2002...so it's a bit old in comparison to the
    > versions of sendmail released since then.
    >
    > THANKS MUCH in advance for any help you can offer!
    > Corey

    That's pretty old now but I don't see why you should be having problems if
    you got it working under RH 9. However, I don't know anything about the
    Enterprise edition.

    I suggest you check out the following link. Rodolfo Piaz has been working
    on an updated howto for sendmail auth. It should likely do the trick for
    you!

    http://www.simpaticus.com/linux/sendmail-smtp-auth-howto.html 

    -- 
Gerry
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne"  Chaucer
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