> From: Larry Smith > Subject: [BlueOnyx:11571] Re: Sendmail Authentication errors [2] > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.devices.blueonyx.user [3] > Date: 2012-10-21 21:08:41 GMT (13 hours and 42 minutes ago)
> On Sun October 21 2012 14:48, Will Nordmeyer wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:43:34 -0600 > > > From: "David Thacker" > > > Subject: [BlueOnyx:11566] Re: Sendmail Authentication errors > > > To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" > > > Message-ID: > > > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > > > reply-type=original > > > > > >> Suddenly, with no real changes by me, I've got a few users who try to > > >> send mail either via outlook or their iphone and they get 'Relaying > > >> denied. Proper authentication required.' > > >> > > >> I had them check their mail and then do a send, but it still occurs. > > >> > > >> In the end (because I had limited debug time) I had to put their IP in > > >> access as a RELAY. > > >> > > >> What else could be causing this to suddenly happen? > > > > > > Another cause of this behaviour may be if the user's account or their IP > > > address (host) is blocked due to excessive failed logins. > > > > > > Log in to the server as admin, and go to the Security > Failed Logins > > > menu. If you see those users on either the Blocked Hosts tab or the > > > Blocked Users tab, click on the "Reset all blocks" button to unblock > > > them. > > > > > > dAvid tHacker Email: > > > David@... [6] Thacker Network Technologies Inc. > > > Http://www.ThackerNet.com [7] > > > > David, > > > > Thanks for the thought - I'd checked and there were not host blocks or > > user blocks. I just don't see why it just started up in the past 3-4 > > days. > > > If you are running poprelayd, then login (ssh) and make sure it is running > and that their IP address is listed as a valid relay (after they check mail). > (command is poprelayd -p) > Better solution is to move them the authenticated (SMTP-AUTH, port 587) > then you don't have to worry about poprelay (as much)... > > I have also had a few servers I had to manually enable "DELAY_CHECKS" > parameter in sendmail.mc so that it checks the poprelay and smtp-auth > before checking from RBL listed hosts. > > -- > Larry Smith > lesmith@... [8] Larry, Thanks for the idea. I checked poprelayd (it is running) and it has no data when I do a poprelayd -p. I'll contact her to shift to port 587... I still wish I could figure out why this suddenly started. And why it is only really affecting one or two users. Links: ------ [1] http://gmane.org/get-address.php?address=lesmith%2d2UjW5%2bkAWGFeoWH0uzbU5w%40public.gmane.org [2] http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c201210211608.41198.lesmith%40ecsis.net%3e [3] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.devices.blueonyx.user [4] http://gmane.org/get-address.php?address=David%2dpPAWqJnSlWlt1OO0OYaSVA%40public.gmane.org [5] http://gmane.org/get-address.php?address=blueonyx%2dtmYmGKlYHG7xDQNxMPk8KQ%40public.gmane.org [6] http://gmane.org/get-address.php?address=David%2dpPAWqJnSlWlt1OO0OYaSVA%40public.gmane.org [7] http://www.wnahosting.com/Http://www.ThackerNet.com [8] http://gmane.org/get-address.php?address=lesmith%2d2UjW5%2bkAWGFeoWH0uzbU5w%40public.gmane.org
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