Does anyone know which features the Sendmail package in Slackware 10 supports by default?

Background: I want to set up a dial-up configuration with a smart host that requires SMTP-AUTH. Which requires Cyrus-SASL, in turn. As Slackware 10 does not include that library (why...?) I installed it from Linuxpackages.net. Then I reconfigured Sendmail using a modified M4 makro following the instructions given here: http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html

Unfortunately the tests don't show the results I was hoping for:

# sendmail -d0,1 -bv root | grep -ri SASL

just returns nothing. And

# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 orion8.iverbi.de ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Sun, 18 Jul 2004 01:48:30 +0200
ehlo localhost
250-orion8.iverbi.de Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP

also indicates that Sendmail wasn't compiled with SASL support for Slackware 10.

Can anyone confim this, or point me to some piece of information telling me, which features are supported by Sendmail on Slackware out of the box?

Does this mean I'd have to compile Sendmail from source? In that case I'd be inclined to run into the open arms of Postfix or Exim... ;-)


Thanks!

gargamel

echo \$Z | /usr/sbin/sendmail -bt -d0

that will tell you what it is compiled with.
i will tell you now the sendmail package that comes with slack doesn't have sasl, you will have to uninstall in and compile it from source.

Thanks for both your replies, Finlay.

gargamel