I have spent weeks trying to resolve the following issues:
I have F9/10/11 working just fine.
1) SendMail - I can get SM to run, but I am unable to send outgoing email messages. Why? Because of some sort of authentication issue refuses to accept the password.
Using authentication, I am constantly asked to provide the password via Thunderbird and in failing to accept authorization, it simply disconnects from sendmail.
I have added non-authorization step as well, and it is simply rejected the connection with no prompts for a password.
From the Thunderbird client, the error message reported is:
Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent using SMTP server mx1.domain.com for an unknown reason. Please verify that your SMTP server settings are correct and try again, or contact your network administrator.
In the above two cases, the error message I got is:
[...] <host/domain>.com [X.X.X.X] did not issue \ MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
2) Until the most recent update, I had clamav-milter working but now, even though a socket is created, an error is reported as:
Feb 24 10:59:15 <host> clamav-milter[9203]: +++ Started at Wed Feb 24 10:59:15 2010 Feb 24 10:59:15 <host> clamav-milter[9204]: No ClamdSocket specified Feb 24 10:59:15 <host> clamav-milter[9204]: Failed to init the socket pool
There are no clamav-milter messages in maillog, where there were previously.
3) Spamass-milter starts and *seems* to work, a socket is created, but no information is yet available at this time so I do not know if this works.
I have removed and installed all of the components several times but that does not seem to change anything.
Are there any pointers on how I can test/proceed into getting these issues resolved?
Kind regards, Dan
On Wed, 2010-02-24 at 11:45 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
I have spent weeks trying to resolve the following issues:
I have F9/10/11 working just fine.
- SendMail - I can get SM to run, but I am unable to send outgoing email messages. Why? Because of some sort of authentication issue refuses to accept the password.
Do you mean you can't mail to the outside world, or you simply can't send any mail through it, even to an internal address?
Using authentication, I am constantly asked to provide the password via Thunderbird and in failing to accept authorization, it simply disconnects from sendmail. I have added non-authorization step as well, and it is simply rejected the connection with no prompts for a password. From the Thunderbird client, the error message reported is: Sending of message failed. The message could not be sent using SMTP server mx1.domain.com for an unknown reason. Please verify that your SMTP server settings are correct and try again, or contact your network administrator. In the above two cases, the error message I got is: [...] <host/domain>.com [X.X.X.X] did not issue \ MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA
We can only guess without seeing configuration files. You also need to say what type of authentications are being used (simply passwords, encrypted logons, certificates as well, etc.).
Are you playing with authorisation, because you have to (it's publicly exposed), or because you want to (for experimenting purpose)?
If you don't really need it (e.g. because you have a mail server inside your LAN that can't be externally accessed) then you can avoid trying to get it working.