Re: Problem of SMTP AUTH

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 11:40:15PM +0800, edwardspl@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
  

/etc/mail/sendmail.mc :

dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 
LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

login as: edward
edward@xxxxxxxxxxx's password:
Last login: Tue Mar 20 23:06:34 2007 from 192.168.0.250
[edward@svr1 ~]$ telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 svr1.ita.org.mo ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.8/8.13.8; Tue, 20 Mar 2007 
23:21:26 +0800
ehlo localhost
250-svr1.ita.org.mo Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to 
meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP

[svradmin@svr1 ~]$ rpm -qa | grep "cyrus"
cyrus-sasl-2.1.22-4
cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.22-4
cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.22-4
cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.22-4
[svradmin@svr1 ~]$

Use outlook express or netscape though the SMTP with correct password is 
fail....
So, What problem of it ?
    

The plugins which implement CRAM-MD5 and DIGEST-MD5 are in the
"cyrus-sasl-md5" package.  Install that, and you should be good to go.

HTH,

Nalin