sendmail: delay in SMTP AUTH

[Man-wai Chang]

>> I suppose sendmail should prompt for username-password immediately after
>> not finding the host in /etc/mail/access, not waiting for 15 seconds.
>> Can I eliminate the wait?
> Odd.  Mine doesn't wait, it asks immediately.  

If I added an OK entry, then the response would be immediate. Otherwise,
any hosts that's not an accepted relay would have to wait 15 seconds to
see the AUTH prompt.

I planned to open port 25 for remote users to use my smtp, with AUTH of
course.

I am using sendmail-8.13-4 and cyrus-sasl-1.5.28.

> Are you using any external databases for lookups?

what external databases?

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