SASL and Sendmail

Richard Stevenson richard at endace.com
Tue Jun 29 16:56:27 PDT 2004


On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Eric Crist wrote:

> I've installed SASL(Cyrus) according to the instructions found in the
> handbook.  I've removed all the proper entries in the relay-domains
> file, but I get the following error message now when I try to send mail:
>
>            550 5.7.1 <that_guy at fakedomain.com>... Relaying denied.
> Proper authentication required.

What does it say in /var/log/maillog about these attempts?  You might need 
to raise the Sendmail logging level (set LogLevel=14 in 
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf, restart Sendmail, and try again).  Without better 
information, there's very little anyone can do to help.

Cheers

Richard

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Richard Stevenson


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