I am running a current woody system, running imap, sendmail and MD5 passwords.
Something has happened in the last week which is causing sendmail to post errors to the /var/log/auth.log every time I send a mail message. Nov 30 10:39:35 hecke sendmail[4482]: PLAIN: set secret for trs Nov 30 10:39:35 hecke sendmail[4482]: DIGEST-MD5: failed to set secret for trs: can't request info until later in exchange Nov 30 10:39:35 hecke sendmail[4482]: CRAM-MD5: set secret for trs As background, I use Netscape to read mail on the local machine, but treat the account as an IMAP account, with the local machine as both the incoming and outgoing SMTP server. Somewhere around last Friday, I could no longer send mail via Netscape because it was suddenly asking for a outgoing mail server username to go with the outgoing SMTP server. Netscape (4.75) has not upgraded since Sept 1, so other things are afoot. If I changed my outgoing SMTP server to another (potato) server, no username was required. At any rate, I gave it my username, and it seemed quite happy. By the way, both mail and IMP had no problems with the SMTP server. Moreover, Mozilla could process the outgoing mail without a username. I checked that sendmail has not updated since Nov 9, and libpam0g hasn't upgraded since late September, so I am somewhat at a loss as to the culprit. Every time I send a message, I generate the above complaints from sendmail. Perhaps the sendmail errors are a result of my having to enter an outgoing mail server username, but then the question is why did Netscape suddenly get fussy, especially since Mozilla is not? It is not a serious problem, except that it shows up in my hourly logcheck summaries. Any ideas appreciated. Thanks Tom -- Thomas R. Shemanske (Mailing Address) (Office/Internet Information) Department of Mathematics 203 Choate House 6188 Bradley Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dartmouth College http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/ Hanover, NH 03755-3551 (603) 646 - 3179 Directions: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/choatehouse.html Office hours: http://www.math.dartmouth.edu/~trs/frontmatter/office.html Fall Term Office Hours: M, F: 2:30 - 4:00 Tu: 9:00 - 10:30
