Re: [vps-mail] Sendmail - going from spammers.db to access.db

[Marjolein Katsma <tfyj8lv02@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

At 00:58 2003-11-21, Weldon wrote:
>> 3. For some accounts/personalities I've set up in my client Eudora, I
>> had the smtp server set to that on the server (smtp.mydomain.com)
>> instead of that of my access provider (used to be dial-up; ADSL now).
>> This has always worked - until the new sendmail.cf was put into place;
>> now this is rejected with a message like: <nodeaddress.tld> [IP] did not
>> issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to stdin
>
>Eudora is connecting but not talking to sendmail. Increase sendmail's
>loglevel to (say) 15 in your mc file:
>
>define(`confLOG_LEVEL',`15')
>
>Then check ~/var/log/messages for clues ...

Not quite a clue - but it was instructive ;-)
At least it gave me a hunch to try something - which worked:

In my Eudora settings I'd always had "Allow authentication" checked - including for those personalities where I used smtp.mydomain.com to send the mail. This always worked (until the new sendmail.cf) though of course I had no idea why.

Looking at the more verbose messages log, I found that what actually seemed to happen was that Eudora would connect (indeed) and then try AUTH as the first command - which was rejected by sendmail in its new configuration; and then Eudora (or sendmail) apparently gave up. So "Allow authentication" seemed to be interpreted as "I'll try only AUTH and nothing else".

What I tried then was simply to turn of the checkbox "Allow authentication" and send my test-email again. And this time it went through! Bingo.

OK, so now I know how to (re)configure my Eudora accounts. Log level is back at 9. Access.db not needed for this particular problem (contrary to what I expected).

On to setting up acces.db - will report back.

-- 
Marjolein Katsma

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