SMTP-AUTH woes.

[Martin Schweizer]

Hello Greg

I did installed an system sendmail/Cyrus imap/sasldb2 successfully. While 
these I run in a lot of troubles. If you're interessted I can send you my 
stuff about it.

Am Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 07:50:56AM -0500 Greg Groth schrieb:
> >did you buildworld before you recompiled sendmail?  ive found that if i 
> >buildworld, that before i recompile sendmail (to implement sasl2) that i 
> >have to make clean on my /usr/src, or else make will try to use what was 
> >already recompiled for sendmail during the buildworld.
> >
> >hth,
> >jonathan
> 
> This is a relatively fresh install, and I did update my ports with 
> portsnap / portmanager, then cvsuped src-all and ran buildworld before 
> playing around with this.  I did not run make clean before the 
> buildworld process though.  I did attempt to rebuild just sendmail after 
> I started having these problems:
> 
> cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
> make clean
> make depend
> make
> make install
> 
> Nothing changed though.
> 
> I was thinking on this a bit further, and although I don't have any of 
> the error messages, I believe I was running into similar issues with 
> Postfix last week.  The box in question died on me, I don't have a 
> battery backup and we had a brownout.  While fscking the system because 
> of the first brownout, we had a second, which rendered the box useless. 
>    I recall moving the unused sasl mechanisms out of 
> /usr/local/lib/sasl2 into a "deactivated" directory (per some how-tos), 
> and ended up with plain being the only mechanism left, and Postfix 
> started giving error messages about no mechanisms available and couldn't 
> seem to find plain text.  I figured I screwed something up with Postfix, 
> and went back to sendmail for this install until I had more time to play 
> around with Postfix.  I'll try the make clean / buildworld thing tonight 
> to see if that helps, and post back if it doesn't.
> 
> Best regards,
> Greg Groth
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