sendmail SMTP-AUTH

[Tony Berth]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Justin Krejci <jus at krytosvirus.com> wrote:

>  I am not a sendmail admin and generally try to avoid it where possible so
> I am not sure about the configuration file needs but you should be able to
> connect to the mail server and issue the ehlo command to see if it is active
> in your current running binary. After re-compiling and installing you will
> of course have to restart sendmail so it loads the newly made binary
> executable.
>
>
>
> To check using telnet
>
>
>
> *telnet IPADDRESS 25*
>
> 220 your.hostname.here ESMTP Sendmail
>
> *ehlo f*
>
>
>
> Once you issue the "ehlo" command it should give you the output similar to
> this
>
>
>
> 250-your.mailserver.name Hello youraddress, pleased to meet you
>
> 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
>
> 250-PIPELINING
>
> 250-8BITMIME
>
> 250-SIZE
>
> 250-DSN
>
> 250-ETRN
>
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
>
> 250-DELIVERBY
>
> 250 HELP
>
>
>
> There may be more or less stuff than this but the key you are looking for
> is the *AUTH LOGIN PLAIN*. It may show up with other things like CRAM-MD5
> on the same line.
>
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> *From:* openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org [mailto:
> openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org] *On Behalf Of *Tony Berth
> *Sent:* Friday, September 12, 2008 8:56 AM
> *To:* Woodchuck
> *Cc:* openbsd-newbies at sfobug.org
> *Subject:* Re: sendmail SMTP-AUTH
>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Woodchuck <marmot at pennswoods.net> wrote:
>
>  On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Tony Berth wrote:
>
> > > Re-compiling sendmail probably translates to
> > >        # cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail
> > >        # make clean
> > >        # make obj
> > >        # make
> > >        # make install
> > >
> >
>
> > I did create mk.conf but sendmail is located in:
> >
> > /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail
>
> Yes.  This is for the whole sendmail suite of pgms.
>
> As I suggested :-)
>
>
> > or
> > /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail
>
> No
>
>
> > or
> > /usr/src/usr.bin/file/magdir/sendmail
>
> No.
>
>
> > The first is the correct one?
>
> Yes.
>
>
> Dave
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>
> up to now everything worked fine. I did recompile and no errors showed up!
>
> Now, how do I verify that SMTP-AUTH capability is included? Any conf file I
> should look into?
>
> Thanks
>


After applying the suggested steps, copying over my modified cf file (as it
was with some customizations before recompiling sendmail!) and re-starting
sendmail, my my telnet output displays:

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP

I think the above shows that I'm on track?

Thanks
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