sendmail problem

[Alexander Dalloz]

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 at espersunited.com (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 at espersunited.com>
>     Reason:    5.7.1 <michael at espersunited.com>... Relaying denied.
> Proper authentication required.

http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/relayingdenied.html

> Also, whenever I try to send email from michael at espersunited.com I get
> this error: 
> 
> Unable to authenticate to SMTP server.
> Bad authentication response from server.
> 
> 
> Please enter the SMTP password for michael at smtp.espersunited.com

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


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