Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:38:21 -0400 From: "jason" <jasonc@concentric.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Sendmail and SASL Message-ID: <000d01c10f9f$ad2cdde0$89941bd8@speakeasy.net>
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I am trying to build a mail server that can be used to send and receive
email from anywhere on the internet. I have many user who connect from who
knows where from day to day and want to allow them to use a single stmp
server to send all email.
Recently I had sendmail configured to collect and distribute email for two
domains. I had qpopper working successfully for users to have pop3 access
to email accounts. But I was unable to find a way for sendmail to easily
relay messages without opening a huge door for spammers.
I did discover SASL and attempted to install it. It was said to allow the
user to send login/password before relay would be permitted. This seemed
like the perfect solution but it required a recompile of sendmail with new
options and sendmail no longer works.
I added the following lines to devtools/Sites/site.config.m4 (actually the
file didn't exist so its the only lines in the file)
APPENDDEF(''confENVDEF','-DSASL')
APPENDDEF('conf_sendmail_LIBS','-lsasl')
Now Sendmail refuses to answer to port 25. I redownloaded a fresh version
and recompiled/installed and I get the same problem.
ps -x doesn't list sendmail as running (my web server has it listed as:
sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail)
There are no error messages related to this problem that I can find on
bootup at any other time that I know of.
Somehow I just broke the entire thing and sort of an format and reinstall I
don't know where to go from here. The system is not live yet and has
nothing of value. but before I go through the process of reinstalling BSD I
would like to know what I did wrong so I don't repeat this again. I am on a
short deadline to complete this project. I have the BSD handbook, The BSD
Corporate Networkers Guide as well as many web resources. But when it comes
to sendmail they all somehow fail to detail a process to handle login
mechanism for smtp access. I know this can be done because my dialup ISP
used to allow me to use this and its a feature in many email programs we use
to enter a username/password for sending email. I just need to be able to
provide such a service.
***Please reply to me as well as the list. So many messages come through
this list I can't possible read them all***
Thanks
Jason Cribbins
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