Understanding Sendmail/Cyrus-imap installation... AAAAAHHHHH!!!

[Aleksandar Milivojevic]

Mark Weaver wrote:
> I've tried setting this line a two different ways.
>     Other     DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')dnl    
> yields an SMTP connection refused message.
> 
>     Other     DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=25,Addr=192.168.0.4, Name=MTA')dnl    
> yields a password dialog box from the client that isn't accepted by the 
> service on the other end. Which is exactly why I've been chasing my tail 
> as I have.

You should be fine with DAEMON_OPTIONS commented (just insert dnl at the 
beggining of the line).  Unless of course you know what you are doing, 
and you really want to limit sendmail to listen only on 192.168.0.4:25.

If you are getting password dialog box, and you haven't enabled user 
authentication in sendmail.mc, check you mail client settings.  Make 
sure "server requires username and password" is not set.  User 
authentication section in stock Fedora sendmail.mc is not enabled by 
default.

If you do want to have user authentication, check if you uncommented all 
required lines for it in stock sendmail.mc (commented by default), and 
that everything is the way it should be.  Not sure if you'd also need 
saslauthd running (check what you have in /usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf). 
  If you do, check if you configured saslauthd correctly 
(/etc/sysconfig/saslauthd), and if it is running or not.

Also note that (if you enable default auth config in sendmail.mc), 
plain/login is allowed only over TLS.  Make sure "use SSL/TLS" check box 
is also checked in your mail client in this case (or allow plain/login 
on cleartext link in sendmail.mc).

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