sendmail does not send auth command
 

Hi I am a newbie here, don't know if this is the right place to post. Do excuse me for any wrong post.

I am setting up Sendmail 8.13.4 on Mandriva 2006 to act as an internal server, and to act as a client to an external mail server - smtp.eth.net. I have gone through the sendmail.mc changes needed and done that, but when i try to send mail I get a message "530 5.7.0 Auth command has not been given". I have created authinfo file and also created authinfo.db, set up genericstable as well.

My sendmail.mc details are here:

divert(-1)
dnl This is the macro config file used to generate the /etc/sendmail.cf
dnl file. If you modify the file you will have to regenerate the
dnl /etc/sendmail.cf by running this macro config through the m4
dnl preprocessor:
dnl
dnl m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
dnl
dnl You will need to have the sendmail-cf package installed for this to
dnl work.
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')dnl
define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``mail:mail'')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')dnl
undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl
undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl
define(`confALIAS_WAIT', `30')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
dnl define delivery mode: interactive, background, or queued
dnl define(`confDELIVERY_MODE', `i')
define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.eth.net')dnl
dnl MASQUERADE_AS(`eth.net')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`allmasquerade')dnl
FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
dnl FEATURE(mailertable)dnl
dnl virtusertable: redirect incoming mail to virtual domain to particular user or domain
dnl FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable')dnl
dnl genericstable: rewrite sender address for outgoing mail
FEATURE(genericstable,`hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail)dnl

FEATURE(`access_db')
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl

FEATURE(`delay_checks')dnl
FEATURE(`stickyhost')dnl
dnl SASL Configuration
dnl
dnl
dnl Next two lines are for SMTP Authentication
dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl
dnl Next line stops sendmail from allowing auth without encryption
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
dnl
dnl STARTTLS configuration
dnl
dnl define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/ssl/sendmail')dnl
dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR')dnl
dnl define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR/CAcert.pem')dnl
dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/MYcert.pem')dnl
dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/MYkey.pem')dnl
dnl define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `CERT_DIR/MYcert.pem')dnl
dnl define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `CERT_DIR/MYkey.pem')dnl
dnl
dnl Uncomment next lines to hide identity of mail serve
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS',`goaway,restrictqrun,restrictmailq')dnl
dnl define(`confSMTP_LOGIN_MSG', `$j server ready at $b')dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl

I will be glad of any help!!

Ram Bhat

I recommend having a look at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?p=1144343 - quite a few people here have used it successfully to get this working properly.

I'm assuming that you're trying to get AUTH working, not that you're getting a random error because of it... :)