one more thing to check make sure your /etc/passwd file didn't get screwed up you can change your password for your account by doing: [root@rokit mail]# passwd user this will change your password and that will take that out of the mix. Don Dupy Systems Administrator Maxxrad PC Services http://www.maxxrad.net email: fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Sa, den 12.06.2004 schrieb Michael Sullivan um 18:27: > > First: Please do not hijack foreign threads! Do not reply to list mails > while you want to start a new topic. Use then a new empty mail editor > window. > > You mailing now appears in a "wonderfully" mixed up thread :( Within > "FC1 mouse freezing" and "iptables problem". > > > OK. I can access access port 110, but when I try to send mail from this > > address to michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (my primary email address under my > > domain) the mail gets returned with this error: > > > > Each of the following recipients was rejected by a remote mail server. > > The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why > > each recipient was rejected. > > > > Recipient: <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Reason: 5.7.1 <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Relaying denied. > > Proper authentication required. > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/relayingdenied.html > > > Also, whenever I try to send email from michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I get > > this error: > > > > Unable to authenticate to SMTP server. > > Bad authentication response from server. > > > > > > Please enter the SMTP password for michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Obviously the authentification fails. Which mechs do you allow on server > side and which client do you use? > > > I changed the password in the text box to the password I use on the > > client PC, but it won't accept it. Mail worked just fine on my server > > PC (until it went down due to hardware problems), which was running > > RH9. I made nightly backups of the /etc directory on the server PC. > > Then I backed up /etc/mail on my client PC (which runs Fedora Core 1) > > and extracted the server PC's backed up /etc/mail files into my client's > > /etc/mail. What am I doing wrong? Can anyone help me with this? > > > > -Michael Sullivan- > > You always have to start by looking at the logs. That is a general rule. > Sendmail logs by using syslogd to /var/log/maillog. There you will find > the information you need to solve your problem. Maybe increase the log > level. > > As a wild guess - due to lacking both log file entries related to the > problem as well as sendmail.mc settings - I assume you do not have > saslauthd running? > > Alexander > > > -- > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13 > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 (Tettnang) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.6.6-1.427 > Serendipity 18:38:16 up 14:20, 8 users, 0.02, 0.27, 0.40 >
