On Thu, 2004-01-29 at 08:39, Henry Hartley wrote: > I recently upgraded a server from RH9 to FC1 (via yum, which worked > surprisingly well). One problem we've had is that the configuration format > for Sendmail seems to have changed enough that we needed to go through that > pretty thoroughly and update everything. One thing we still have not > managed to get working correctly is the ability to send mail from local > network clients. Clients can all read mail fine and by running pine or mutt > on the server we can send mail without problems. But with Mozilla Mail > (which is what our users mostly use) we are asked for a SMTP password and > when it is provided, we are simply asked again, as though the password we > provided were wrong (I'm pretty sure I'm getting it right). Has something > changed in the default method for authenticating? Is this even a sendmail > issue? Since we can READ mail without problems, I assume we can > authenticate at some level (using IMAPS). Our iptables is allowing ports > 993 and 465 through so I don't think that's the problem. > Sendmail-cf-8.12.10-1.1.1 on FC1. Suggestions welcome. > > -- > Henry Hartley I'm not sure what type of authentication you're using but I ran into a similar problem after my upgrade. Fedora's version of sendmail uses sasldb2 not sasldb (notice the "2" at the end). sasldb2 is created in a different format than sasldb using the saslpasswd2 utility. You can list users using sasldblistusers2. In other words, your problem may be with sasl. -- Gerry Doris <gdoris@xxxxxxxxxx>
