Published March 5th, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
Sendmail SASL support
Spent the last day fighting with sendmail to make SMTP AUTH work, via SASL. Even though I could make sendmail compile with SASL 2.1, it just didn’t seem to work. I was seeing….
Mar 5 13:35:02 humboldt sendmail[14220]: h2534maC014220: AUTH failure (LOGIN):
no mechanism available (-4) SASL(-4): no mechanism available: checkpass failed
… in /var/log/maillog and…
Mar 5 13:35:02 humboldt sendmail[14220]: unknown password verifier
… in /var/log/messages. I don’t know if its my setup, or a poroblem with sendmail itself, but as soon as I recompiled with SASL 1.5 it worked perfectly. So I’m guessing that as of 8.12.8, sendmail just doesn’t seem to work with 2.1 versions of SASL. Hope this helps someone.
Update (26/5/03): In response to Jim’s comment below I’ve posted Jim O’Halloran’s Weblog: More on Sendmail SASLa bit more of my configuration. Hope that helps.
Jim Edwards Says
I’m reading along, and wondering if someone, somewhere knows why, after the gruelling compile and installation of sendmail, sasl, and mimedefang, why auth doesn’t work when defang does.
I place this line in my mc file and process it, restart sendmail, and auth is broken, claiming my server doesn’t accept (any) auth.
INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang’, `S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, T=S:1m;R:1m’)
May 26th, 2003 at 6:43 am