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why no SASL in sendmail?

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J Moore

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Aug 2, 2006, 1:49:06 AM8/2/06
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I need to support mail for mobile users. Consensus appears to be that
this is best done w/ a combination of SASL (authentication) & STARTTLS
(encryption). However, sendmail isn't compiled with SASL support:

# sendmail -d0.1 -bv
Version 8.13.4
Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING
SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG

Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but is this because there are
issues with SASL? Or is there a "better way" to provide smtp services
for mobile users?

Thnx,
J

Jacob Yocom-Piatt

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Aug 2, 2006, 2:07:12 AM8/2/06
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i believe this has been beaten to death. search the archives for the remains.

cheers,
jake

>Thnx,
>J

J Moore

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Aug 2, 2006, 2:44:37 AM8/2/06
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Thanks - I will... but it didn't appear prominently in my Google search.

J Moore

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Aug 2, 2006, 3:01:05 AM8/2/06
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searching w/ term "SASL" back to early 2005, I could find nothing
particularly controversial... did I miss something?

J

Antoine Jacoutot

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Aug 2, 2006, 3:11:22 AM8/2/06
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, J Moore wrote:
>>> Perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but is this because there are
>>> issues with SASL? Or is there a "better way" to provide smtp services
>>> for mobile users?

Add
WANT_SMTPAUTH=Yes
in /etc/mk.conf and recompile sendmail.

See /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail/Makefile

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Antoine

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