> This is one for the sendmail gurus... > > I am not having any real luck enabling STARTTLS with sendmail to > allow authenticated mail relay from remote (dialup) clients. > > I'm _almost_ there, but something is missing or needs some slight > tweaking. > > My question: > > Can anyone here point me in the direction of some good clear > detailed "howto" documentation for doing auth/starttls so that it > will work for me? > > Many thanks. snip.... > > Not good. But when it is posted locally, this happens: > > sendmail[18696]: AUTH=server, relay=(local.network.host.name) > [192.168.10.110], > authid=(local.user.name), mech=LOGIN, bits=0 > > But LOGIN/PLAIN is not encrypted. (I'd like to disable PLAIN login > althogether). What mech's are you expecting? If you're trying to use any of the sasl ones then check the recent messages on how to get those working with 8.12.5. Gerry