Re: problem with sendmail in sid
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Martin Maciaszek wrote:
> The problem was even more subtle that I thought. Somehow I
> misspelled my hostname in GENERICS_DOMAIN. After that my old
> genricstable started working again :))
>
> Thanks for the help and sorry for the false alarm.
heh, one of the easier false alarms lately...
> Yet another problem is still unsolved. I want my sendmail to do
> smtp-auth to my smarthost (gmx.net). I read the documentation on
> sendmail.org but somehow I seem to have missed something. Here's
> a snipplet from my sendmail.mc:
> [...]
> TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`PLAIN')dnl
> define(`confDEF_AUTH_INFO',`/etc/mail/default-auth-info')dnl
> [...]
The last line is the default, you don't need it in sendmail.mc
> my /etc/mail/default-auth-info contains the following lines:
> myusername
> myusername
> mypassword
> mail.gmx.net
>
> This somehow doesn't work. Can anyone give me some hints? or
> maybe a samples of a working configurations (without the
> passwords)
Run this through perl:
encode_base64("$username\000$username@$realm\000$password"
and then:
telnet mail.gmx.net 25
ehlo localhost
AUTH PLAIN <result_from_encode>
Send me the resultant log.
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