Roaming users & SMTP_AUTH

Are you using the sendmail that is distributed with 8.0? That copy (sendmail-8.12.5-7) is built with SASL support, so it's pretty easy to configure to support SMTP AUTH. If you only need the plaintext (PLAIN & LOGIN) mechs you can simply uncomment:

TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PL

in /etc/mail/sendmail.mc, build a new sendmail.cf, and restart sendmail.

Email clients that authenticate to the server will be granted relay privs.

One needs to keep in mind the security implications of this. Roving clients that use PLAIN or LOGIN are exposing their username and password to anyone with a sniffer or password capture program that's in a position to see the SMTP session. This isn't too much of a problem if there are no other Internet accessible services with login privs (like telnet, FTP, ssh, etc). However, if you have servers that could be exploited by someone with a valid username/password you should probably consider:

1) Using a separate (non-system) authentication database and an IMAP/POP server like Cyrus that supports that. A side benefit of that is that the secure methods (CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5) become available.

2) Creating email only accounts that have no access to a shell.

Hi jlevie,
           Thanks alot for giving reply to me.

The sendmai I'm using is sendamail-8.11.6.
And info I'm getting when I give the command...
#sendmail -d0.1 -bv root |grep SASL
NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS QUEUE SASL SCANF

The lines you said in the previous Answer are already uncommented.  Following is my sendmail.mc  for your reference.

******************************************************
divert(-1)
dnl This is the sendmail macro config file. If you make changes to this file,
dnl you need the sendmail-cf rpm installed and then have to generate a
dnl new /etc/sendmail.cf by running the following command:
dnl
dnl        m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/sendmail.cf
dnl
include(`/usr/share/sendmail-cf/m4/cf.m4')
VERSIONID(`linux setup for Red Hat Linux')dnl
OSTYPE(`linux')
define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl
undefine(`UUCP_RELAY')dnl
undefine(`BITNET_RELAY')dnl
define(`confAUTO_REBUILD')dnl
define(`confTO_CONNECT', `1m')dnl
define(`confTRY_NULL_MX_LIST',true)dnl
define(`confDONT_PROBE_INTERFACES',true)dnl
define(`PROCMAIL_MAILER_PATH',`/usr/bin/procmail')dnl
define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
dnl define(`STATUS_FILE', `/etc/mail/statistics')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_MAX', `2000000')dnl
define(`confUSERDB_SPEC', `/etc/mail/userdb.db')dnl
define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,novrfy,noexpn,restrictqrun')dnl
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
define(`MASQUERADE_AS', `myhostname')dnl
dnl TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
dnl define(`confTO_QUEUEWARN', `4h')dnl
dnl define(`confTO_QUEUERETURN', `5d')dnl
dnl define(`confQUEUE_LA', `12')dnl
dnl define(`confREFUSE_LA', `18')dnl
dnl FEATURE(delay_checks)dnl
FEATURE(`no_default_msa',`dnl')dnl
FEATURE(`smrsh',`/usr/sbin/smrsh')dnl
FEATURE(`mailertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable.db')dnl
FEATURE(`virtusertable',`hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable.db')dnl
FEATURE(redirect)dnl
FEATURE(always_add_domain)dnl
FEATURE(use_cw_file)dnl
FEATURE(use_ct_file)dnl
FEATURE(local_procmail,`',`procmail -t -Y -a $h -d $u')dnl
FEATURE(`access_db',`hash -o /etc/mail/access.db')dnl
FEATURE(`blacklist_recipients')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_entire_domain')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`promiscuous_relay')dnl
EXPOSED_USER(`root')dnl
dnl This changes sendmail to only listen on the loopback device 127.0.0.1
dnl and not on any other network devices. Comment this out if you want
dnl to accept email over the network.
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
dnl NOTE: binding both IPv4 and IPv6 daemon to the same port requires
dnl       a kernel patch
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`port=smtp,Addr=::1, Name=MTA-v6, Family=inet6')
dnl yourself from spam. However, the laptop and users on computers that do
dnl not have 24x7 DNS do need this.
FEATURE(`accept_unresolvable_domains')dnl
dnl FEATURE(`relay_based_on_MX')dnl
MAILER(smtp)dnl
MAILER(procmail)dnl
dnl Cwlocalhost.localdomain
*******************************************************

Still I'm not able to send the mails(not relaying)

Thanks for your Support.

Regards,
Raja.

Hi jlevie,
           Please look at the above  sendmail.mc and figure-out what went wrong.

Thx & Rgds,
Raja.

Sorry...,The version of my RedHatLinux is 7.2. Sorry for my error in my Question.

Sorry...,The version of my RedHatLinux is 7.2. Sorry for my error in my Question.

Thank  you jlevie..!!