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Date:      Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:12:27 -0600
From:      Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com>
To:        bsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Sendmail and smtp-auth against passwd
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20061128121128.024a9888@mail.computinginnovations.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061128151706.GC78205@server.idefix.loc>
References:  <20061127032030.GH8339@server.idefix.loc> <456AC5FF.60402@unsane.co.uk> <20061128151706.GC78205@server.idefix.loc>

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SASL can and does fine with stronger authentication.  However, some clients 
do not.  Specifically Outlook doesn't support stronger authentication.

         -Derek


At 09:17 AM 11/28/2006, Matthias Fechner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>* Vince <jhary@unsane.co.uk> [27-11-06 11:03]:
> > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')
> > TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')
>
>thx for all the answers even the PMs I got.
>I found the problem now:
>The problem is/was if you have the two lines:
>define(confAUTH_MECHANISMS', LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')
>TRUST_AUTH_MECH(LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5')
>
>sendmail uses the sasldb for authentification but if you replace them
>with:
>define(confAUTH_MECHANISMS',PLAIN LOGIN')dnl
>TRUST_AUTH_MECH(PLAIN LOGIN')dnl
>
>everythings works fine.
>
>So it is necessary to disable strong authentification. It seems that
>the saslauthd cannot handle it :(
>
>Best regards,
>Matthias
>
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