[csw-users] configuring sendmail for smtp authentication

[Peter Bonivart]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Jake Goerzen <jgoerzen at opencsw.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've have a working install of OpenCSW sendmail server up and running and
> would like to add smtp authentication to it so I have added the following to
> my sendmail.mc and rebuilt sendmail.cf:
>
> define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p y')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
>
> After restarting sendmail I setup thunderbird as a client and test sending
> mail.  I get a prompt for a username/password when sending but the
> credentials are never accepted.  I'm pretty sure saslauthd is configured
> correctly since I can successfully test it:
>
> $ /opt/csw/sbin/testsaslauthd -u username -p password
> 0: OK "Success."
>
> It is as if sendmail doesn't know how to communicate with saslauthd. From
> searching the web, I've tried creating the file /etc/opt/csw/Sendmail.conf
> with the contents:
>
> pwcheck_method: saslauthd
> mech_list: PLAIN LOGIN
> saslauthd_path: /var/opt/csw/saslauthd/mux
>
> But it still does not work.   Has anyone set this up and have it working?

I assume you have tested to connect to the server and seen that it
actually offers AUTH?

In your client, did you use TLS because you told it not to accept
PLAIN/LOGIN otherwise?

/peter