Auth + Sendmail help please

[Julian Stacey]

Hi freebsd-net@ folk.
I've been having problems trying to simultaneously configure my 4.9
home client gateway & my remote 24/7 server to provide an Auth +
SASL outgoing sendmail channel.  My fault not FreeBSD's but I'm
asking for help.  One problem is I dont have a known good server
or client to test the other half against. Another problem is too
many options - each end :-)

I'd much appreciate if some kind volunteer could either:
 A)     Give me a temporary account for my sendmail client on their server
        (not even a login, I've got plenty of those thanks, just a
        `proper' SASL + Auth + Sendmail, (& it's easy to check I'm
        not a spammer seeking a relay, hit Google with my name & you'll see
        what I'm known for, better or worse :-)
or B)   I give you a temporary account on my half baked server,
        you point your client at it, wait for it to blow, & tell
        me what I've got wrong (Yes I can give you a full login so
        you can look yourself if you want.)
Whichever, if either or both I'm offered please :-)

I've read lots of docs, not restricted to (but just listing some)
        /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
        http://docs.snake.de/smtp-auth.html
        http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html
        http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/cyrus/sysadmin.html
        http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html
& tried SASL2 & then SASL1,
Ive tried SASL passwords & direct /etc/passwd type.
I think I've tried most or all of
        ports/security/ cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl2 cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd
but I think not yet
        mail/sendmail-sasl

My background .m4 files (both ends) are mastered from
 http://berklix.org/~jhs/src/bsd/fixes/FreeBSD/src/jhs/etc/sendmail/common.cpp

My current error report is server end: AUTH warning: no mechanisms
>From contrib/sendmail/src/srvrsmtp.c:3992
I have all of
 /usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf -> ../../../site/usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf
 /usr/local/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf -> ../../../../site/usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf
 /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf -> ../../../../site/usr/lib/sasl/Sendmail.conf
Are symbolic links acceptable ?
Can Sendmail.conf contain comment lines beginning with hash char ?

Any help appreciated, please ! Thanks !

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Julian Stacey.   Munich Unix C & Net Services Consultant.  http://berklix.com
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