Oliver Nittka

Hi all,

i experience some strange behaviour with the following setup:
(please excuse the sparse information, i don't have access to the
respective machines right now, but i can post additional info per
request)

- sendmail sending mail to a smarthost that wants SMTP AUTH
(configured via FEATURE(authinfo), using SASLv2 PLAIN)
- /etc/nsswitch.conf contains "passwd: files ldap" and "group: files
ldap"

when i leave out "ldap" from nsswitch.conf, authenticating works fine.

i need ldap, because the MTA acts as NFS-server at he same time,
getting it's account data from ldap (which happens to run on the same
machine actually :-))

does anybody have an idea on where to start searching?
i already tried with sendmail -q -d0-1000.10, which proves that the
authinfo map is read correctly, but then just gives up and sends
"QUIT".

(BTW, can anybody explain about the parameters for -d? i was just
guessing :-))

i can post all the config/logfiles you need (tonight, at about 19:00
GMT-1), just drop me a line.

Thank you all very much in advance!

-- oly