did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

Untill just a few weeks ago sendmial was working fine.
No there seems to be a problem with SSL ( after a power failure - the
server gad problems getting up ...)

so same config but SSL doesn't work
client side: keeps asking for the password ( Thunderbird )
server side: "did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA"

I generated new certificates, changed AUTH a few time

SSL certs work fine
openssl s_client -connect localhost:465
openssl s_client -connect localhost:25
telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 hydra.domain.net ESMTP Sendmail 8.13.1/8.13.1; Wed, 24 Aug 2005
11:15:44 +0200
EHLO localhost
250-hydra.domain.net Hello localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], pleased to
meet you
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-PIPELINING
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE
250-DSN
250-ETRN
250-AUTH GSSAPI LOGIN PLAIN
250-STARTTLS
250-DELIVERBY
250 HELP


intresting parts in sendmial.mc

define(`confDEF_USER_ID',``8:12'')dnl
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
define(`STATUS_FILE', `/var/log/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
dnl #define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A p y ')dnl
define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS', `A')dnl
define(`', `A p')dnl
dnl #

TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL GSSAPI LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI LOGIN PLAIN')dnl

define(`confCACERT_PATH',`/etc/mail/certs/certs/')
define(`confCACERT',`/etc/mail/certs/certs/cacert.pem')
define(`confSERVER_CERT',`/etc/mail/certs/certs/sendmail.pem ')
define(`confSERVER_KEY',`/etc/mail/certs/certs/sendmail.pem' )
define(`confCLIENT_CERT', `/etc/mail/certs/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl
define(`confCLIENT_KEY', `/etc/mail/certs/certs/sendmail.pem')dnl

define(`confTO_IDENT', `0')dnl


and access:

localhost.localdomain RELAY
localhost RELAY
127.0.0.1 RELAY
domain.net RELAY
10.1.1. RELAY
192.168.255. RELAY





Any ideas ?

Re: did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to MTA

Well the problem was pretty trivial

/usr/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf

should consist of these:

pwcheck_method:saslauthd
mech_list: login plain

(restared sendmail and sasl2 ...all works fine)