How to turn sendmail authentication off

Lai Zit Seng lzs at pobox.com
Wed May 25 07:54:06 UTC 2005


The snippet you have below shows that authentication is supported. This 
is not the same as "required". Did you do something else to have 
concluded that it is in fact required?

Regards,

.lzs
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Cameron Beattie wrote:
> I have been struggling with configuring sendmail without authentication. 
> If I comment out confAUTH_OPTIONS in sendmail.mc sendmail is still 
> requiring authentication.
> sendmail.mc
> <snip>
> include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
> VERSIONID(`setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
> OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
> dnl define ('confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
> dnl define ('confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p')dnl
> </snip>
> 
> telnet localhost 25
> ehlo localhost.localdomain
> <snip>
> 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
> </snip>
> 
> I want to configure sendmail so that it will only relay mail from 
> localhost and will not require authentication. How do I turn off 
> authentication?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated
> 
> Cameron




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