Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd

[John Covici]

So, I restored all the files, I could like sendmail.mc and the
Sendmail.conf, but no joy, still no authentication mechanisms.  I
restored them to about first of April.  This still leads me to saslauthd.

On Thu, 05 May 2022 12:52:45 -0400,
Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> On 5/5/22 10:39 AM, John Covici wrote:
> > saslauthd is running, but it seems to ignore the Sendmail.conf .
>
> I think it's the other way around.
>
> Sendmail is told to support authentication via one or more
> methods, one of which can be SASL and co.
>
> The actual SASL auth daemon just listens on a unix socket and /
> or TCP port for clients to test authentication pairs, returning a
> pass fail type message.
>
> > I used openssl s_client to connect to my sendmail, it was happy
> > with the certs, but in response to the ehlo gives me no auth
> > line at all.
>
> :-/
>
> > Very strange.
>
> Very annoying, definitely.
>
> I don't know if it's strange yet or not.  I think the strangeness
> will be confirmed or refuted after finding out why Sendmail isn't
> offering AUTH options.
>
> My favorite thing to turn to when things that used to work and
> now don't is to restore a backup of the configuration file and
> compare them.  Can you do that with your sendmail.cf or
> sendmail.mc file?
>
> There's also a chance that it's your submit.cf or submit.mc file
> since we're talking about the MSA on port 587.  (Unless you
> aren't using the separate MSA which has been standard for 15+
> years.)
>
>
>
> --
> Grant. . . .
> unix || die
>

-- 
Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
How do
you spend it?

         John Covici wb2una
         covici@××××××××××.com