Bad sequence of commands

[garing]

Dear all,
I finalize installing squirrelmail, but if i try to send/compose message from the webmail (squirrelmail) i laway this errors:

Bad sequence of commands
Server replied: 503 auth not available (#5.3.3)

How can i fixed this, i try to looking at the squirrelmail.org, sourceforge about all this error, but i don't have to resolve the problem's.

anybody help please..

[Bookworm]

That's because you're missing the SMTP auth section.

You've skipped at least one step in the install process.

Best solution? Go back through from the beginning, and make sure you did every step.

BW

[ovidiu]

can you give us a hint of where we might have missed a step? I have the same problem...

I solved my problem: seems sendmail somehow escaped the attempts to be removed. I just deleted a little bit more occurencies of sendmail...

[dan.drian]

another problem. if you get this messeges check if exim are started. also you must uninstal or stoped from services.

[MRauf]

I have run into similar issue today, qmail+vpopmail+ rest were installed as per walkthru. Qmail has been running smooth since Feb 16th or so. Today I get user calls and I notice qmail-qstat having 1100 e-mail, and 0 waiting to be processed.

squirrelmail can retrive mail but get error when sending :

Bad sequence of commands
Server replied: 503 auth not available (#5.3.3)

Attaching text attachment for telnet localhost 25 and qmailctl stat

Any assist is appriciated

locals.022605: I have no idea what this file does.
bash-2.05# ./qmailctl stat
/service/qmail-send: up (pid 16816) 3044 seconds
/service/qmail-send/log: up (pid 16779) 3073 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd: up (pid 16781) 3073 seconds
/service/qmail-smtpd/log: up (pid 16783) 3073 seconds
messages in queue: 875
messages in queue but not yet preprocessed: 0
/service/qmail-pop3d: up (pid 16787) 3073 seconds
/service/qmail-pop3d/log: up (pid 16788) 3073 seconds




bash-2.05# telnet localhost 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mail.mydomain.net ESMTP

502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)
mail from: me@mydomain.net
250 ok
rcpt to: someone@somewhere.net
250 ok
data
354 go ahead
test
.
250 ok 1117125110 qp 19861
q
502 unimplemented (#5.5.1)
quit
221 mail.mydomain.net
Connection to localhost closed by foreign host.

[MRauf]

Typo in qmail-smtpd/run file had line devider without space between domain name and vchkpw thus it was unable to run vchkpw.

[SherylM]

Bad sequence of commands
Server replied: 503 auth not available (#5.3.3)

I am also getting this message. Our qmail setup has been working fine for several months. I tried restarting our server to no avail.

Here is the script that runs when we reboot:

csh -cf '/command/svscanboot &'
svscan /service
qmailctl start
/usr/local/sbin/proftpd
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startssl
/etc/webmin/start >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null # Start webmin
tcpserver -u 7791 -g 2107 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd &
tcpserver 0 pop3 /var/qmail/bin/qmail-popup ourdomain.com \
/bin/checkpassword /var/qmail/bin/qmail-pop3d Maildir &