POP Before SMTP

[Doug Hardie]

On Monday, Aug 11, 2003, at 04:06 US/Pacific, Mark wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Hardie" <bc979 at lafn.org>
> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk>
> Cc: "FreeBSD" <katrina at nightrealmstudios.com>; "FreeBSD-Questions"
> <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 7:10 AM
> Subject: Re: POP Before SMTP
>
>
>> The handbook seems to be missing some instructions.
>> I tried what it  says and sendmail does not accept authentication
>> requests.  There is an  error in the maillog about
>> /usr/local/etc/sasldb.db having group  permissions.
>> Changing that to  700 changes the error to one where it
>> can't access the file.  Changing the owner of that to root eliminates
>> the error messages.  Sendmail then acknowledges that it has auth
>> capability.
>
>
> This is how its permissions are set for me:
>
> -rw-r-----   1 cyrus  mail      155648 Aug  8 15:02 sasldb2.db
>
> Maybe you should give the "cyrus" user r/w access too. :) I if remember
> correctly, the SASL2 install creates the cyrus user for you.

Well I found the following on the sendmail.org pages:

sendmail requires sasldb to be owned by root or the trusted user and 
not be readable by anyone else since the file contains sensitive data 
(shared secrets).

Ok.  I guess thats probably the way to go then.  At least there are no 
error messages.  But, now how do I get past the missing pipe?  
Something else needs to be started, but what?


-- Doug