MailScanner / SMTP Auth (again)

[Julian Field]

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Another things we hit with sasl on RedHat  (and hence its clones too) is 
a configuration error in /etc/sysconfig/saslauthd, where they had MECH 
set wrong. It should be set
    MECH=pam
so that it correctly checks all your authentication schemes. As shipped 
it only checks the local password. Oops.

Nathan Olson wrote:

>Read this:
>http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html
>
>You may have not created the sasldb password file, among other things.
>Why you'd have LOGIN and not PLAIN is also very strange.  LOGIN is
>antiquated (but still used by horrid email clients).
>
>Nate
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