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When sendmail is configured with password that starts with the character #, authentication is failed. Sendmail throwed an error that "AUTH=client, available mechanisms do not fulfill requirements".

Is this is a known issue.? Is that a restriction with sendmail or ssl authentication or rules parsing?

Sample default-auth-info file :-

sendmailtest@gmail.com
sendmailtest@gmail.com
#12345678
smtp.gmail.com:587
LOGIN PLAIN DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 NTLM

LINUX platform

Sendmail version : 8.14.0

sasl version : 2.1.22

Thanks in advance for the help..

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It seems that readauth function in sendmail/usersmtp.c file ignores lines starting with #.

BTW Have you considered using FEATURE(authinfo) instead of confDEF_AUTH_INFO/DefaultAuthInfo?
Anyway makemap command also by default treats # as a comment indicator but it may be changed using -D command line option.

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