Re: How to turn sendmail authentication off

OK thanks. I am getting a message "[127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA" in my maillog. I thought that was authentication related but perhaps it isn't. Any ideas what may be causing that?

Regards

Cameron
----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Howarth" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 7:45 PM
Subject: Re: How to turn sendmail authentication off

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 14:28 +1200, Cameron Beattie wrote:

I have been struggling with configuring sendmail without authentication. If
I comment out confAUTH_OPTIONS in sendmail.mc sendmail is still requiring
authentication.
sendmail.mc
<snip>
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
VERSIONID(`setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
dnl define ('confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
dnl define ('confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p')dnl
</snip>

telnet localhost 25
ehlo localhost.localdomain
<snip>
250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
</snip>

This is sendmail *offering* authentication. It's not *requiring* it.

I want to configure sendmail so that it will only relay mail from localhost
and will not require authentication. How do I turn off authentication?

Any help would be appreciated

If you have FEATURE(`access_db') and a line:

127.0.0.1                       RELAY

in /etc/mail/access, it should relay mail for localhost without
requiring authentication (and these are default settings).

You don't have "M=a" or "M=Ea" in the DAEMON_OPTIONS line for your MTA,
do you?

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

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