Dan, thanks for catching that! Ok, so now I've gotten further! pwcheck_method:saslauthd mech_list: login plain saslauthd_path: /var/run/saslauthd/mux allowplaintext: 1
and the perms look like this: [#4136] ls -l /var/run/saslauthd/mux srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jun 17 13:11 /var/run/saslauthd/mux [#4137] ls -ld /var/run/saslauthd drwx--x--- 2 root sasl 140 Jun 17 13:11 /var/run/saslauthd/ [#4138] grep sasl /etc/group sasl:x:45:smmta,smmsp At this point, what made it work was chmodding the /var/run/saslauthd to 777. So sendmail must be running in some other group. 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! 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... Michael Grant
