sendmail sasl configuration

[Scot W. Hetzel]

From: "Sean Ellis" <sellis at telus.net>
>   I am trying to enable sasl and having some problems.
>
>   The sendmail that we are using is made by hand rather the ports;
>   the security/cyrus-sasl port was also installed. At this point
>   running the command `sendmail -d0.1 -bv root | grep SASL` gives the
>   following output:
>                   PIPELINING SASL SCANF TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG
>
>   However telnetting to port 25 with the new sendmail running gives
>   only:
>
:
>
> and the following log error appears when restarting sendmail:
>
> error: safesasl(/usr/local/etc/sasldb.db) failed: Permission denied
>
Do you have "define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL',`GroupReadableSASLDBFile')dnl"
in your *.mc file?

> file is:
>
> -rw-r-----  1 cyrus  wheel  16384 Aug 22 17:23 /usr/local/etc/sasldb.db
>
> sendmail.mc options were taken from the freebsd handbook page on the
> topic.
>
> Can anyone steer me in the right direction here?
>
The group listed on your sasldb.db file is wrong, it should be group mail
instead of group wheel.

Have you read /usr/local/share/doc/cyrus-sasl/Sendmail.README?

Scot