sendmail SMTP-AUTH

[Tony Berth]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Tony Berth <tonyberth at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 11:48 AM, Tony Berth <tonyberth at googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> some more questions now regarding how SMTP-AUTH works!
>
> Currently I have dovecot as IMAP server installed and when retrieving
> e-mails from KMail everything works just fine. Now, after recompiling
> sendmail with SMTP-AUTH I did search for kind of a tutorial to make all that
> work with a MUA - in my case KMail but didn't find any!
>
> When I did a test from KMail to check what auth options do I have from my
> server regarding SMTP, I got TLS and GSSAPI, DIGEST-MD5 and CRAM-MD5. So
> this part was OK. Now when entering the UNIX credentials of that user, I got
> in maillog:
>
> -----------------------
> Sep 17 00:12:30 <server> sm-mta[12694]: STARTTLS=server, relaay=<IP
> Address>, version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=NO, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA,
> bits=256/256
> Sep 17 00:12:30 <server> sm-mta[12694]: m8GMCTlh012694: <IP Address> did
> not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
> -------------------------
>
> Following the man pages, tried the following:
>
> sasldblistusers2 produced: listusers failed
> applied saslpasswd2 and entered an account but this didn't show up in
> sasldblistusers2 neither KMail was able to auth!
> realised that sasl2 demon was not running after installing the package! So
> I did start that as root manualy ( saslauthd -a rimap -O localhost) but this
> didn't help either! I still get the same error in maillog!
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> Tony
>
>
>
Any chance to to have some help on this?

Thanks for your support

Tony
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