Re: upgrade to sarge has sendmail rejecting mail
On Mon, 18 Oct 2004, Wayne Sitton wrote:
> Yesterday I upgraded to sarge on my email server. Now suddenly and
> email sent to it gets sent back with
>
> ... while talking to zlabinc.com.:
> >>> RCPT To:<chapel@zlabinc.com>
> <<< 503 This mail server requires authentication. Please check your mail
> client settings.
The above is *not* a message in the sendmail distribution
> Now my client settings have not changed, only the sendmail
> server(upgrade).
Are you sure it was sendmail ?
> And the funny thing is, this only happens to one domain, while there are
> 4 others that are having no problem, plus I don't even send out through
> that server I send out through roadrunner, and none of my other email
> accounts have that problem
There isn't enough information above to do any diagnosis, but it may
not matter in the slightest if you send mail FROM the server - if it
wants inbound mail to be authenticated.
> And to add to the problem, when I try to check the email from that
> account, it will not accept the password yet I can ftp and ssh into the
> box with this password.
SASL was also upgraded - and it *COULD* cause this in that it changed
the way that the realms are handled for authentication... I think
there is a note regarding the changes in a README in the sasl doc dir.
--
Rick Nelson
<Flood> netgod: I also have a "Evil Inside" T-shirt (w/ Intel logo).. on
the back it states: "When the rapture comes, will you have root?"
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