sendmail

[Jack Craig]

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 11:34 PM, rb <roland at cat.be> wrote:

> I'm trying to send email, using sendmail, with authentication port 587 and
> credentials.
>
> I modified sendmail.mc as follows:
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
> PLAIN')dnl
> FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl
>
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl
> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=587, Name=MSA, M=E')dnl
>
> the file client-info contains:
> AuthInfo:smtp.auth.orange-business.com "U:<my_authentication>"
> "P:<my_password>" "M:PLAIN"
>
> I tried first to send an email via
> telnet smtp.auth.orange-business.com 587
> using the credentials above, which I encoded with Base64 Coder,
> and it worked.
>
> When I use
> mail -s "my subject" <my email> < some_file
> I get in /var/log/maillog:
> Jul  8 07:54:09 godefroy sendmail[19322]: q685q9XO019320:
> to=<roland at cat.be>, ctladdr=<roland at godefroy.fr> (504/500),
> delay=00:02:00, xdelay=00:02:00, mailer=relay, pri=121220,
> relay=smtp.auth.orange-business.com. [194.2.0.87], dsn=4.0.0,
> stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with smtp.auth.orange-business.com.
>
> When I start sendmail with:
> /usr/sbin/sendmail -O LogLevel=14 -bd -X /tmp/output.log
>
> the output.log file gives no errors, but mentions nowhere the
> authentication.
>
> I'm trying to solve this for weeks now, but without result.
>
> Can somebody help me?
> sendmail-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7
> sendmail-cf-8.13.8-8.1.el5_7
>
> Thanks
> Roland
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sendmail can be a real bear to debug, but if you have tried all teh debug
levels w/o joy, you might try googling 'sendmail debug auth'

hth, ...
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