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

[Mark Weaver]

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> 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.

This is what was causing me the problems. I need to make my morning 
coffee stronger it appears.

> 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).
> 

Very good info...thank you.

-- 
Mark

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