POP Before SMTP

[Mark]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Hardie" <bc979 at lafn.org>
To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc: "FreeBSD" <katrina at nightrealmstudios.com>; "FreeBSD-Questions"
<freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:10 AM
Subject: Re: POP Before SMTP


> The handbook seems to be missing some instructions.
> I tried what it  says and sendmail does not accept authentication
> requests.  There is an  error in the maillog about
> /usr/local/etc/sasldb.db having group  permissions.
> Changing that to  700 changes the error to one where it
> can't access the file.  Changing the owner of that to root eliminates
> the error messages.  Sendmail then acknowledges that it has auth
> capability.


This is how its permissions are set for me:

-rw-r-----   1 cyrus  mail      155648 Aug  8 15:02 sasldb2.db

Maybe you should give the "cyrus" user r/w access too. :) I if remember
correctly, the SASL2 install creates the cyrus user for you.

- Mark