Sendmail 8.13.8 SMTP Auth on RHEL5

sushantchawla2005 · 10-26-2009, 01:49 AM

Hi All

I have a requirement to configure my Sendmail Server to authenticate users located at different places with SMTP AUTH. I have followed many exhaustive tutorials regarding this on the web but nothing worked for me.

However TLS is working perfect for me but SMTP AUTH is still a nightmare for me, so I would highly appreciate if anyone can help me with a sure shot method to implement SMTH Authentication on my Server.

One more thing when I do "ehlo localhost" it also does not print any AUTH mechanism.

Plzzzzzzzzzzzz Help

Many Thanks in Advance
Sushant Chawla
Linux Administrator

gilead · 10-26-2009, 08:48 PM

If you don't have the required auth mechanisms then you may have to recompile the sendmail binary. I recommend the tutorial here - although it was written for Slackware, the config sections should apply to other distributions as well.

sushantchawla2005 · 10-27-2009, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gilead

If you don't have the required auth mechanisms then you may have to recompile the sendmail binary. I recommend the tutorial here - although it was written for Slackware, the config sections should apply to other distributions as well.

Many Many Thanks to you Steve I followed your mentioned link & surprisingly it worked for me after so many hours, days & months struggling in this hell.

Again Thank you very much for the help. linuxquestions.org rocks!!!!

Cheers to all!!!

gilead · 10-27-2009, 06:29 AM

I'm glad you've got it working - it's an excellent tutorial that SiegeX has put together