Ok, I'm trying to switch from pop-before-smtp over to SMTP auth with RedHat Fedora linux running sendmail. The testsaslauthd returns success when i type in a userid/password I'm running saslauthd like this:

/usr/sbin/saslauthd -m /var/run/saslauthd -a shadow

Currently my senmail.mc file (as far as the smtp auth goes) looks like this:

define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

(i've tried all 3 sets they all return the same problem). My Sendmail.conf file looks like:

pwcheck_method: saslauthdb

And sendmail doesnt allow me to authenticate either by telnetting to port 25 or by using a clinet like Outlook or mozilla or whatever and setting it to login to the server for outgoing mail. I've set the sendmail loglevel=14 and attempted to authenticate to port 25 and it’s giving me this message:

Dec 2 16:46:46 BigBox sendmail[16094]: NOQUEUE: connect from root@localhost
Dec 2 16:46:46 BigBox sendmail[16094]: STARTTLS=server, Diffie-Hellman init, key=512 bit (1)
Dec 2 16:46:46 BigBox sendmail[16094]: STARTTLS=server, init=1
Dec 2 16:46:46 BigBox sendmail[16094]: AUTH: available mech=GSSAPI PLAIN LOGIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 ANONYMOUS, allowed mech=EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
Dec 2 16:46:46 BigBox sendmail[16094]: hB2MkkG7016094: Milter: no active filter
Dec 2 16:47:33 BigBox sendmail[16094]: hB2MkkG7016094: AUTH failure (login): no mechanism available (-4) SASL(-4): no mechanism available: checkpass failed
Dec 2 16:47:33 BigBox sendmail[16094]: hB2MkkG7016094: root@localhost did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to stdin

Off this set of commands:

ehlo localhost
250-prozach.com Hello root@localhost, pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP
auth login
334 VXNlcm5hbWU6
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (x’ed out base 64 UID)
334 UGFzc3dvcmQ6
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX (x’ed out base 64 pwd)
535 5.7.0 authentication failed


My software versions are:
sendmail-8.12.10-1.1.1
cyrus-sasl-2.1.15-6
cyrus-sasl-md5-2.1.15-6
cyrus-sasl-gssapi-2.1.15-6
cyrus-sasl-devel-2.1.15-6
cyrus-sasl-plain-2.1.15-6


Does anyone have any ideas…