Mail auth and FreeBSD/Sendmail

AndreasWiderøeAndersen andreas at wideroe.net
Wed Oct 6 07:38:55 PDT 2004


At 16:23 06.10.2004, Remko Lodder wrote:
>>When I issue an ehlo localhost on port 25 of the smtp server I get this:
>>250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>>250-PIPELINING
>>250-8BITMIME
>>250-SIZE
>>250-DSN
>>250-ETRN
>>250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
>>250-STARTTLS
>>250-DELIVERBY
>>250 HELP
>>Now I'm really lost...
>
>Hi Andreas,
>
>Not sure whether this helps but here we go:
>Within Postfix i had to specify that
>i needed broken_sasl support for clients
>like outlook.
>
>This gave me the following ehlo output:
>
>250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
>250-AUTH=LOGIN PLAIN
>
>(stripped the rest). Perhaps you are able to get
>something like that as well and then retry testing.
>
>Hth,
>
>Cheers!
>
>>Any help?
>>Thanks!
>>Andreas


Hmm.. I increased the LogLevel of sendmail to 25 and this is were it seems 
to fail:

Oct  6 16:31:57 server sendmail[99094]: i96EVuIK099094: <-- AUTH LOGIN
Oct  6 16:31:57 server sendmail[99094]: i96EVuIK099094: --- 334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
Oct  6 16:31:57 server sendmail[99094]: i96EVuIK099094: --- 334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
Oct  6 16:31:57 server sendmail[99094]: i96EVuIK099094: --- 535 5.7.0 
authentication failed
Oct  6 16:31:57 server sendmail[99094]: i96EVuIK099094: AUTH failure 
(LOGIN): generic failure (-1) SASL(-1): generic failure: checkpass failed
Oct  6 16:31:57 server sendmail[99094]: i96EVuIK099094: <-- RSET
Oct  6 16:31:57 server sendmail[99094]: i96EVuIK099094: --- 250 2.0.0 Reset 
state

Login through pop/imap works fine though..

/Andreas

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