Authentication in Sendmail

Authentication in Sendmail

[Darragh]

Hello again,
I'm trying to get sendmail to use authentication.  My SMTP server needs the same log in as the POP3.  

I'm not sure if this will make any sence, but when I want to enable this in Outlook / Outlook Express in Windows, I go to the properties of the account that I want to change, go to the servers tab and check the last box labeled "This server requires authentication".  I then click advanced and check Same as Incoming.  If I don't do this I cant send mail.

Any ideas?


Thanks


Darragh

Re: Authentication in Sendmail

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Darragh,

I have been struggling with that problem too, and have just
solved it this afternoon, thanks to some older correspondence
with Chris Moore which did the trick for me. I have just switched
to a DSL connection with verizon.net and they required
authentication on their outgoing mail server.

Here is an outline of what I had to do on my Slackware 9.1 Linux:

1. Obtain and install a package called "cyrus-sasl", a simple
authentication and security library;

2. Get the source package for sendmail and recompile it, giving
it information about the above package.

3. create a specialized sendmail.cf configuration with
information about authentication;

and

4. create a data base in /etc/mail called "authinfo.db"  with
your user name and password information.

These are the general steps. The details are in the docs, and I
will be glad to follow up privately if you want to correspond
about it. I don't think anything in the above steps are
distribution specific, by the way.

Chuck


On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Darragh wrote:

> Hello again,
> I'm trying to get sendmail to use authentication.  My SMTP server needs the same log in as the POP3.
>
> I'm not sure if this will make any sence, but when I want to enable this in Outlook / Outlook Express in Windows, I go to the properties of the account that I want to change, go to the servers tab and check the last box labeled "This server requires authentication".  I then click advanced and check Same as Incoming.  If I don't do this I cant send mail.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Darragh
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Re: Authentication in Sendmail

[Christopher Moore]

Some linuxdistros come with pre-bilt sasl libraries.  I believe redhat may
be one of these.  This would save you a bit of work.  

Chris

Re: Authentication in Sendmail

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-722-7209]

Yes, that's true of Red Hat Linux, and it's descendant, Fedora Core.
-- 

Bill in Denver

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003, Christopher Moore wrote:

> Some linuxdistros come with pre-bilt sasl libraries.  I believe redhat may
> be one of these.  This would save you a bit of work.  
> 
> Chris
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Re: Authentication in Sendmail

[Darragh]

Thanks, does that mean so that I don't have to re-install sendmail from
source?

Thanks


Darragh.
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> Some linuxdistros come with pre-bilt sasl libraries.  I believe redhat may
> be one of these.  This would save you a bit of work.
>
> Chris
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Re: Authentication in Sendmail

[Christopher Moore]

You shouldn't need to rebuild sendmail from source, but you will need to
configure it to use authentication.  

Chris