It's been awhile but this is what I used to get started. http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html On Apr 29, 2019 8:11 AM, Michael <aixtools@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > If you have any experience with configuring SENDMAIL and AUTH - and > willing to share - I'd appreciate some hints. > > Just to get things started: > > a) I am building sasl and sendmail myself - errors are likely > self-inflicted. > > b) when I start sendmail (-OLogLevel=14) I see: > > syslog output: date-string... AUTH: available mech=SCRAM-SHA-1 > SCRAM-SHA-256 DIGEST-MD5 OTP CRAM-MD5 PLAIN ANONYMOUS, allowed > mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI KERBEROS_V4 DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 > > FYI: no special attention to mechanisms I recall when building SASL (v1.27) > > My sendmail.mc file contains: > > dnl # FEATURE(genericstable)dnl > dnl # FEATURE(mailertable)dnl > dnl # FEATURE(virtusertable)dnl > dnl # FEATURE(domaintable)dnl > dnl # FEATURE(access_db)dnl > dnl # FEATURE(blacklist_recipients)dnl > > dnl ### AUTH CONFIGURATION > define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl > > The generated sendmail.cf file contains: > > root@x066:[/data/prj/aixtools/git/sendmail/sendmail-8.15.2.1/cf/cf]grep > Auth /tmp/sendmail.cf > C{TrustAuthMech}LOGIN PLAIN > O AuthMechanisms=LOGIN PLAIN > # Authentication realm > #O AuthRealm > #O DefaultAuthInfo=/etc/mail/default-auth-info > O AuthOptions=A > #O AuthMaxBits > R$* $: $1 $| $>"Local_Relay_Auth" $&{auth_type} > R$* $| $={TrustAuthMech} $# RELAY > > ehlo says: > > ehlo x.y.z > 250-x066.home.local Hello root@localhost, pleased to meet you > 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES > 250-PIPELINING > 250-EXPN > 250-VERB > 250-8BITMIME > 250-SIZE > 250-DSN > 250-ETRN > 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 > 250-STARTTLS > 250-DELIVERBY > 250 HELP > auth > 501 5.5.2 AUTH mechanism must be specified > auth PLAIN > 504 5.3.3 AUTH mechanism PLAIN not available > AUTH LOGIN > 504 5.3.3 AUTH mechanism LOGIN not available > AUTH CRAM-MD5 > 334 PDEyMzI4NzU5MjEuMTMwMzk1NDZAeDA2Ni5ob21lLmxvY2FsPg== > > *** > > While I do not expect to run as "PLAIN", I am using these values to > verify my understanding of the setup. Suggestions on how to activate > PLAIN/LOGIN are welcome! > > Michael > > >
