Sendmail Authenticated Relay Not Working: SASLAUTHD giving errors and SENDMAIL not shutting down

Hi all,

I am trying to setup SMTP authentication which allows relaying. I want my users to authenticate when RECEIVING and SENDING email using my mail server.

I am using Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3 WS (Taroon Update 4) as my distro.

I tried to setup the required things for this : 1)Cyrus SASL 2)Open TLS 3)Sendmail

I downloaded and built all of these again.... but when i tried running SASL Authentication Daemon (SASLAUTHD) i run into trouble and also when i run /etc/init.d/sendmail stop ; it fails it and doesn't stop sendmail .

THe following are the outputs I was getting:

[root@myserv]# /etc/init.d/saslauthd start
Starting SASL Authentication Daemon: saslauthd[7186] :main            : could not chdir to: /var/state/saslauthd
saslauthd[7186] :main            : chdir: No such file or directory
saslauthd[7186] :main            : Check to make sure the directory exists and is
saslauthd[7186] :main            : writeable by the user this process runs as.
[root@myserv]# service sendmail restart
Shutting down sendmail:                                    [FAILED]
Shutting down sm-client:                                   [FAILED]
Starting sendmail:                                         [  OK  ]
Starting sm-client: sendmail: fatal: flush queue mode requires no recipient
                                                           [FAILED]
[root@myserv]# /etc/init.d/sendmail stop
Shutting down sendmail:                                    [FAILED]
Shutting down sm-client:                                   [FAILED]

Hoping I get to resolve this issue at the earliest.
Thanks in advance.

PS:Reading thro sendmail.org is a bit difficult to understand and implement.

I would appreciate if a detailed method as to how to set SMTP auth could be provided.
- Arshkit