My system is running FC3 (upgraded from RH9) and is not relaying email that is originated on the same host by Thunderbird. Can anyone help? After a few days of trying to get this to work, I am stumped. The symptom is I get asked for a password, which I supply correctly. Sendmail logs an error message "No secret in database". 1. The old sendmail.mc / sendmail.cf files used to work fine. The DAEMON_OPTION line restricting access to the local host is commented out, even though that should not be an issue either way in this case. In an attempt to get things working, I added a line to the "access" file to permit relaying for the specific address of that host. 2. I have read up on SMTP Auth and have NOT tried to turn it on. I am just trying to get things working the way they were. (I am the only person with physical access to the server or any of the PCs on my LAN, everything is hidden behind an appliance-type firewall with ports enabled only as I find I need to, and so on.) Once things work the old way, then SMTP Auth is a definite possibility. However, for the record + saslauthd is running (I had to turn that on) + I created an entry in the sasl database for the user trying to send mail, and have verified that there are entries for that user for PLAIN, CRAM-MD5, and DIGEST-MD5 + I generated a certificate for the host + Originally the system was configured to use "shadow" for authentication for sendmail; in trying to get things to work I tried "pam" and (now) "getpwent", on the grounds that that uses the regular system password file and should not be subject to missing database entries. (So much for that theory.) + When I use ethereal to snoop on the interaction between Thunderbird and Sendmail, I see an AUTH CRAM-MD5 command, a response, a message body command, and then an authentication failed response. When I telnet to port 25 on my server and do an EHLO <myhostname>, sendmail lists GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5 for AUTH Can anyone shed any light on this? Suggestions for fixes would be most welcome. Also, explanations would be nice too. If I am not understanding something correctly, please do not hold back - I want to learn. I am very comfortable around computers, but it's been a few years since the last time I tried to configure a Linux box and I never was an expert on that. TIA, Debbie
