Mail error (SOLVED)
Federico Voges
fvoges
Mon May 17 11:34:14 PDT 2004
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Hi,
I've fixed it yesterday. Digging through www.sendmail.org I've found
how to disable authentication:
Just added this to /usr/share/sendmail/cf/cf/generic-openlinux.mc
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')
And run mta-swith newconfig (the script that rebuilds sendmail.cf in
COL).
The other way was to recompile sendmail without AUTH support (without
libsasl) but that would mean that I'd have to recompile sendmail with
each update. So the m4 option seems to be the best (it should survive
packages updates).
Caldera compiles sendmail with libsasl and auth turned on by default.
The SMPT of Infovia (Telefonica de Argentina ISP), has auth enabled but
it's not needed (in fact I'm sending mail destined to that server) and
COL's sendmail appears to be trying to authenticate itself to Infovia's
SMTP server and fails (with that strange error).
I've found 4 or 5 messages on the web of people with similar errors
(using sendmail 8.11), but no answers.
I'm not an expert on SMTP AUTH, so I don't know if this config swith
break anything. But as I'm not using SMTP AUTH at all, I don't mind. I
can send mails to that server now. :)
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 14:24:15 -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>I'm not sure why you would be getting AUTH errors unless you had
>configured SMTP AUTH on the box. If you had done that, I would have to
>ask why.... Unless you are pumping all outbound mail through a provider
>which requires SMTP AUTH (like Yahoo.com) then I don't see a whole lot of
>use for SMTP AUTH. If you are attempting to establish email communication
>in which one or both parties are identified, I would recommend using SMTP
>STARTTLS using CERTS and a CA, which will provide both encryption as well
>as positive ID. If you are working AROUND something, then you'll have to
>dig deeper in the SMTP AUTH manual to only use SMTP AUTH for specific
>sites, which I have no knowledge about. Good luck!
>
>
>On Sat, 29 Jun 2002 17:13:11 -0300
>"Federico Voges" <fvoges at intrasoft.com.ar> wrote:
>
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Doing some admin stuff today, I discovered that something isn't working
>> right with sendmail.
>>
>> I have a virtualdomain (caba.org.ar) and webmaster is a virtualuser
>> pointing to notelodigo at advancedsl.com.ar (so webmaster at caba.org.ar ->
>> notelodigo at advancedsl.com.ar). BTW infomail.infovia.com.ar is the MX
>> for advancedsl.com.ar and my server is the MX for caba.org.ar.
>>
>> I've realized that all mail from this machine to that account gets
>> bounced. Here's an example:
>>
>> # uptime |sendmail -v webmastera at caba.org.ar
>> webmastera at caba.org.ar... Connecting to infomail.infovia.com.ar. via
>> esmtp...
>> 220 infoviaplus.net.ar ESMTP server (Tid InfoMail Exchanger v2.20)
>> ready at Sat, 29 Jun 2002 16:56:33 -0300
>> >>> EHLO monster.intrasoft.com.ar
>> 250-infoviaplus.net.ar
>> 250-DSN
>> 250 AUTH=LOGIN
>> >>> MAIL From:<root at monster.intrasoft.com.ar>
>> >AUTH=root at monster.intrasoft.com.ar
>> 501 Invalid extension from MAIL From:<root at monster.intrasoft.com.ar>
>> AUTH=root at monster.intrasoft.com.ar
>> root... aliased to fvoges
>> fvoges... aliased to fvoges at intrasoft.com.ar
>> /root/dead.letter... Saved message in /root/dead.letter
>> Closing connection to infomail.infovia.com.ar.
>> >>> QUIT
>> 221 infoviaplus.net.ar closing connection
>>
>> That is from a COL 3.1.1 Server with a stock sendmail
>> (sendmail-8.11.6-8). If I run sendmail -v notelodigo at advancedsl.com.ar,
>> I get the same error.
>> I've also tried tha same from my home server (COL eServer 2.3.1) and it
>> worked.
>>
>> The problem appears to be the "AUTH=root at monster.intrasoft.com.ar"
>> appended to the MAIL FROM by the COL 3.1.1 sendmail. In fact, I've
>> tried to send the mail manually (using telnet) and it worked:
>>
>> [root at monster root]# telnet infomail.infovia.com.ar 25
>> Trying 200.9.212.59...
>> Connected to infomail.infovia.com.ar.
>> Escape character is '^]'.
>> 220 infoviaplus.net.ar ESMTP server (Tid InfoMail Exchanger v2.20)
>> ready at Sat, 29 Jun 2002 17:05:08 -0300
>> EHLO monster.intrasoft.com.ar
>> 250-infoviaplus.net.ar
>> 250-DSN
>> 250 AUTH=LOGIN
>> MAIL From:<root at monster.intrasoft.com.ar>
>> 250 Ok
>> RCPT To:<notelodigo at advancedsl.com.ar>
>> 250 Ok
>> DATA
>> 354 Start mail input
>> .
>> 250 Ok, message accepted for delivery
>> quit
>> 221 infoviaplus.net.ar closing connection
>> Connection closed by foreign host.
>> [
>>
>> So, is this my problem?? How do I stop sendmail sending that "AUTH..."
>> that's causin the delivery failure??
>>
>> TIA
>> Federico Voges
>> Socio gerente
>>
>> Intrasoft
>> Malabia 2137 14 A
>> (1425) Buenos Aires
>> Argentina
>>
>> Te/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182
>> e-mail: fvoges at intrasoft.com.ar
>> Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar
>>
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Federico Voges
Socio gerente
Intrasoft
Malabia 2137 14 A
(1425) Buenos Aires
Argentina
Te/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182
e-mail: fvoges at intrasoft.com.ar
Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar
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