SMTP auth problem

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 20:30 -0700, Joey Prestia wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 20:03 -0700, Joey Prestia wrote:
> >> Craig White wrote:
> >>> Is saslauthd running?
> >>> /sbin/service saslauthd status
> >>> or better yet...
> >>> /sbin/service saslauthd restart
> >>> then look at the bottom of /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog to
> >>> make sure there isn't any errors.
> >>>
> >>> Are all the users stored in /etc/passwd or mysql or ldap?
> >>>
> >>> Craig
> >> Craig,
> >>
> >> Yes all accounts are stored in /etc/passwd
> >> saslauthd is running and performed a restart
> >>
> >> maillog:
> >>
> >>   Jul  4 20:04:40 linuxamd saslauthd[27068]: server_exit     : master 
> >> exited: 27068
> >> Jul  4 20:04:40 linuxamd saslauthd[30273]: detach_tty      : master pid 
> >> is: 30273
> >> Jul  4 20:04:40 linuxamd saslauthd[30273]: ipc_init        : listening 
> >> on socket: /var/run/saslauthd/mux
> >>
> >> So restarting caused no errors I just tried to send this via a another 
> >> wireless network with no success
> > ----
> > are you sure that you have enabled secure authentication on your client
> > program?
> > 
> > can you try another mail program? You could try to authenticate via
> > command line but that's infinitely trickier to do with ssl.
> > 
> 
> I have tried with both kmail and thunderbird. My usual settings are tls
> if available and and smtp auth with username and password I thought at
> first that this was the problem it was using the old password so I
> removed the default smtp server settings and removed the passwords. So
> it would force me to manually enter the password again I did this while
> on another network and tried to send with no success. As soon as I
> disconnected from the neighboring lan and connected to the local lan it
> took and sent but I am unsure if it is using auth it seems like it is
> only sending because its on my lan how would I verify the authentication
> process is working at all?
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I don't use smtp auth but I would expect smtp auth connections to be
logged in /var/log/maillog and possibly in /var/log/secure

Craig