On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 10:15, Don Dupy wrote: > make sure you have your client pc in your /etc/mail/access file. > mine looks like so....... > > # Check the /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf file for a description > # of the format of this file. (search for access_db in that file) > # The /usr/share/doc/sendmail/README.cf is part of the sendmail-doc > # package. > # > # by default we allow relaying from localhost... > localhost.localdomain RELAY > localhost RELAY > 127.0.0.1 RELAY > 192.168.0 RELAY <client IP addresses> > > then do a m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf > > then /etc/init.d/sendmail restart > On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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 > > > > 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? ---- I hate to reply to top posted replies... I don't think authentication works out of the box on sendmail. I think you can remove the comments (dnl at the start) of the following lines from /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 or you can tell your mail clients not to use authentication (used to be the default configuration for mail clients but I have noticed recent versions of Netscape default to on) It is up to you to determine which mechanisms are appropriate and how to configure them - there is a lot of documentation on sendmail - especially authentication methods. if you edit sendmail.mc file, all you should need to do after that is to issue make -C /etc/mail to get the changes implemented Craig
