Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 11:38:21 -0400 From: "jason" <jasonc@concentric.net> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Sendmail and SASL Message-ID: <000d01c10f9f$ad2cdde0$89941bd8@speakeasy.net>
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I am trying to build a mail server that can be used to send and receive email from anywhere on the internet. I have many user who connect from who knows where from day to day and want to allow them to use a single stmp server to send all email. Recently I had sendmail configured to collect and distribute email for two domains. I had qpopper working successfully for users to have pop3 access to email accounts. But I was unable to find a way for sendmail to easily relay messages without opening a huge door for spammers. I did discover SASL and attempted to install it. It was said to allow the user to send login/password before relay would be permitted. This seemed like the perfect solution but it required a recompile of sendmail with new options and sendmail no longer works. I added the following lines to devtools/Sites/site.config.m4 (actually the file didn't exist so its the only lines in the file) APPENDDEF(''confENVDEF','-DSASL') APPENDDEF('conf_sendmail_LIBS','-lsasl') Now Sendmail refuses to answer to port 25. I redownloaded a fresh version and recompiled/installed and I get the same problem. ps -x doesn't list sendmail as running (my web server has it listed as: sendmail: accepting connections (sendmail) There are no error messages related to this problem that I can find on bootup at any other time that I know of. Somehow I just broke the entire thing and sort of an format and reinstall I don't know where to go from here. The system is not live yet and has nothing of value. but before I go through the process of reinstalling BSD I would like to know what I did wrong so I don't repeat this again. I am on a short deadline to complete this project. I have the BSD handbook, The BSD Corporate Networkers Guide as well as many web resources. But when it comes to sendmail they all somehow fail to detail a process to handle login mechanism for smtp access. I know this can be done because my dialup ISP used to allow me to use this and its a feature in many email programs we use to enter a username/password for sending email. I just need to be able to provide such a service. ***Please reply to me as well as the list. So many messages come through this list I can't possible read them all*** Thanks Jason Cribbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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