<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Dan, thanks for catching that! Ok, so now I've gotten further!</div><div><br></div><div>
<div>pwcheck_method:saslauthd</div><div>mech_list: login plain</div><div>saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux</div><div>allowplaintext: 1<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>and the perms look like this:</div><div><div>
[#4136] ls -l /var/run/saslauthd/mux</div>
<div>srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 17 13:11 /var/run/saslauthd/mux</div><div>[#4137] ls -ld /var/run/saslauthd</div><div>drwx--x--- 2 root sasl 140 Jun 17 13:11 /var/run/saslauthd/</div><div>[#4138] grep sasl /etc/group</div>
<div>sasl:x:45:smmta,smmsp</div></div><div> </div><div>At this point, what made it work was chmodding the /var/run/saslauthd to 777. So sendmail must be running in some other group.</div><div><br></div><div>I have to say that this was bloody difficult to debug. It would have been so kind to output a simple 'open failed: /var/run/saslauthd' or something similar rather than a generic error!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for your help. Now on to the next problem, why isn't sendmail allowing me to send (relay) mail now that the connection is properly authenticated...</div><div><br></div><div>Michael Grant</div>
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