sendmail user name and password authentication

[Jonathan T. Steadman]

On Sat, 2004-07-24 at 19:35, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Am So, den 25.07.2004 schrieb Jonathan T. Steadman um 0:48:
> 
> > O.K. here are my logs, I also took out of relay-domains my domain,
> > should I put it back in access?  anyways I am so very confused and am
> > very grateful for your help thus far.
> 
> It depends on what you want to achieve. If you want to relay based on
> SMTP AUTH then you won't put any host/net in the access_db.
> 
> > When I first click send with authentication turned on:
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: <-- AUTH
> > PLAIN some wierd characters are hear, think its my passwrd.
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: --- 535
> > 5.7.0 authentication failed
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: AUTH
> > failure (PLAIN): no mechanism available (-4) SASL(-4): no mechanism
> > available: Password verification failed
> 
> The key is "no mechanism available". Make sure you have cyrus-sasl-plain
> RPM installed, else there is no SASL support for PLAIN and LOGIN.
> 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: <-- AUTH
> > LOGIN
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: --- 334
> > VXNlcm5hbWU6
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: --- 334
> > UGFzc3dvcmQ6
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: --- 535
> > 5.7.0 authentication failed
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:04 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: AUTH
> > failure (LOGIN): no mechanism available (-4) SASL(-4): no mechanism
> > available: checkpass failed
> 
> Again. I just see no parts in the log where you put in your AUTH data.
> 
> > After I abort attempt to enter password (press cancel)
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:37 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030: --- 421
> > 4.4.1 localhostname.dyndns.org Lost input channel from [192.168.2.4]
> > 
> > Jul 24 18:42:37 localhostname sendmail[5030]: i6OMfx2N005030:
> > [192.168.2.4] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> > 
> > Anyways I can still sendmail without authentication, it works fine.
> 
> You can send from localhost or your private network IP 192.168.2.4? What
> is the content you access file?
> 
> Alexander
> 

originally it just had hosts and ip's for people on my network with a
RELAY next to each name. 
 
I have recently removed everything from access file (after your email),
so now I can only send from my machine, on other machines authentication
still does not work, yes have I cyrus-sasl-plain I double checked with
yum and confirmed it, I have not put any hosts in ~/relay-domains, I
dont know what I am doing wrong but I am quite sure it is probably
something rather silly.  Do I have to blatantly say somewhere,
some-random-domain require authentication?  or something like that?  I
haven't the slightest idea what I am missing.