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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 16:40:04
Message-Id: m3a6bwj5ly.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd by Grant Taylor
1 On Thu, 05 May 2022 12:22:55 -0400,
2 Grant Taylor wrote:
3 >
4 > On 5/4/22 7:31 AM, John Covici wrote:
5 > > Hi. I have been using various clients to connect to my sendmail
6 > > server using port 587 and using starttls to encrypt the connections
7 > > and then using the plain mechanism to send the user name and password
8 > > to authenticate.
9 > >
10 > > Last day or so this has stopped working -- I don't know that I changed
11 > > anything (famous last words),
12 >
13 > Assume that your configuration is at least acceptable until you
14 > have a reason to think otherwise.
15 >
16 > > So, after all that, anyone have an idea as to how to fix?
17 >
18 > Start with the simpler thing first.
19 >
20 > Is the SASL authentication daemon running?
21 >
22 > Did your (START)TLS certificate expire? Contemporary clients may
23 > silently refuse to use expired certs.
24 >
25 > > Thanks.
26 >
27 > You're welcome.
28 >
29 > Feel free to poke things and respond with more questions /
30 > details / errors / etc.
31 >
32
33 saslauthd is running, but it seems to ignore the Sendmail.conf . I
34 used openssl s_client to connect to my sendmail, it was happy with the
35 certs, but in response to the ehlo gives me no auth line at all. Very
36 strange.
37
38 --
39 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
40 How do
41 you spend it?
42
43 John Covici wb2una
44 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] problem with saslauthd Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>