Mail error (SOLVED)

[Matthew Carpenter]

On Mon, 01 Jul 2002 15:41:56 -0300
"Federico Voges" <fvoges at intrasoft.com.ar> wrote:

> 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).

Good choice.  This is a non-option.  Rebuilding the sendmail.cf file using
M4 and an .mc file which suits your needs is IMHO the best way to maintain
sendmail.  Yes, you can manually configure the .cf file, but then you're
stuck if someone sends you instructions to add to your .mc config file.

> 
> 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).