I'm trying to set up dovecot-submission server which will listen on
external ports 465 (SSL) and 587 (StartTLS) and relay mail to sendmail
waiting on localhost port 587.

I have dovecot submission listening on the external ports and sendmail
listening on the localhost port.

I want dovecot-submission doing the authentication on the external
ports because sendmail doesn't use the /etc/dovecot/users file.

I can authenticate to dovecot:

  auth: Debug: client in: CONT<hidden>
  auth: Debug: 
passwd-file([email protected],217.35.29.56,<blablabla>): Performing 
passdb lookup
  auth: Debug: 
passwd-file([email protected],217.35.29.56,<blablabla>): lookup: 
[email protected] file=/etc/dovecot/users
  auth: Debug: 
passwd-file([email protected],217.35.29.56,<blablabla>): Finished 
passdb lookup
  auth: Debug: auth([email protected],217.35.29.56,<blablabla>): Auth 
request finished
  auth: Debug: client passdb out: OK      1       
[email protected]

But in the sendmail logs, dovecot *is* trying to authenticate and it's
trying to use a username that sendmail can't look up in the password
file: 

  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 220 top.networkguild.org ESMTP 
Sendmail 8.17.2/8.17.2/Debian-1~bpo12+1; Fri, 20 Oct 2023 12:42:08 GMT; (No 
UCE/UBE) logging access from: localhost(OK)-localhost [IPv6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1]
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: <-- EHLO top.networkguild.org
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-top.networkguild.org Hello 
localhost [IPv6:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1], pleased to meet you
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-PIPELINING
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-EXPN
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-VERB
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-8BITMIME
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-SIZE
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-AUTH DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-STARTTLS
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250-DELIVERBY
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 250 HELP
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: <-- MAIL 
FROM:<[email protected]> [email protected]
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: --- 530 5.7.0 Authentication required
  top dovecot: submission([email protected])<1012719><blablabla>: 
Error: Relay server requires authentication: 530 5.7.0 Authentication required
  top dovecot: submission([email protected])<1012719><blablabla>: 
Disconnected: Internal error occurred. Refer to server log for more 
information. (unfinished MAIL command) (state=MAIL FROM) in=41 out=121
  top sm-mta[1012721]: 39KCg8h31012721: <-- QUIT

How do I stop dovecot from proposing AUTH to the relay server?

Once I am authenticated via dovecot, the relay which is only available
on localhost, doesn't need to authenticate.  It should be as if
bin-mail is submitting to localhost.

I tried setting up a user with a password but no shell and configure
this into submission_relay_master_user and submission_relay_password
but this leads to other problems. Dovecot wants to do PLAIN auth, so I
then enable starttls, but then the ssl certificate doesn't match
because I'm connecting to localhost, not top.networkguild.org.  So it
seems clear, the relay should a) not auth, and b) not do ssl.

Note that this is not an open relay, it's only open on the loopback
interface.

Michael Grant

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