No secret in database (problems trying to send email using Thunderbird)

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Fri May 6 18:10:26 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 13:00 -0400, Debbie Deutsch wrote:
> 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".

Have you recently installed an updated sendmail package by any chance?
That may have clobbered your access database. You could try rebuilding
it:

# cd /etc/mail
# rm *.db
# make

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>




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