Hi, I'm using Debian R3.0 with
ii sendmail 8.12.3-4 ii libsasl7 1.5.27-3 trying to connect my provider Puretec (1&1) Germany via SMTP AUTH. To configure sendmail for this I put following in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc: FEATURE(`authinfo')dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`PLAIN LOGIN') define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `PLAIN LOGIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp:auth.smtp.puretec.de')dnl Generating /etc/mail/sendmail.cf with: m4 /usr/share/sendmail/cf/m4/cf.m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf My /etc/mail/authinfo file contains one singel line with: AuthInfo:auth.smtp.puretec.de "U:myusernameatprovider" "I:myusernameatprovider" "P:mypasswordatprovider" "M:PLAIN" Generating /etc/mail/authinfo.db with: makemap -d hash /etc/mail/authinfo.db < /etc/mail/authinfo If connecting the SMTP Server with telnet and initiating the connetion with EHLO one gets: 250-mrelayng.kundenserver.de.Hello.spock.home.[62.155.192.143]. 250-SIZE 20971520 250-PIPELINING 250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN 250 HELP . If I connect now to my provider and send a mail, so sendmail is running, I have the following in the logfile: sendmail[5180]: AUTH=client, available mechanisms do not fulfill requirements sendmail[5180]: AUTH=client, relay=auth.smtp.puretec.de, temporary failure, connection abort sendmail[5180]: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:24:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=smtp, pri=282 0410, relay=auth.smtp.puretec.de [212.227.126.162], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Temporary AUTH failure Tracing that situation with tcpdump I saw that my sendmail ist connecting to the smtp server via EHLO and after getting the above list is quitting the connection direct after without trying to authenticate. Has anybody any idea whats going wrong? I read all the documents which comes with sendmail-doc, but I havn't any idea. -- Stefan-W. Hahn / mailto:stefan.hahn@;s-hahn.de / -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]