Sendmail Smarthost Auth

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Well Giorgos,

  For starters the advice in that section is wrong for 2 reasons:

pwcheck_method: passwd   does not work on sasl2 and FreeBSD 6.X
You don't want to use sasl1 for many reasons, you want to use
sasl2

define(`confDEF_AUTH_INFO', `/etc/mail/auth-info')dnl
is deprecated.

Fortunately the section has the link for the Sendmail auth which
has better directions.  Note:

"... Notice: the default 8.12 configuration file causes the option
DefaultAuthInfo to fail since the ruleset authinfo is in the .cf file. If
you really want to use DefaultAuthInfo (it is deprecated) then you have to
remove the ruleset.
DaemonPortOptions (DAEMON_OPTIONS())
has now suboptions (called modifiers), one of which is `a'. This tells the
daemon to require authentication for all connections to it. ..."

I think it's been a while since you used that section to setup
SMTP AUTH.

Note also the poster wants to know how to make his Sendmail
auth into another mailer, he doesen't want to setup his own
system to accept auth connections.

Ted


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr>
To: "Tom Grove" <freebsd at voidmain.net>
Cc: <questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2006 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: Sendmail Smarthost Auth


> On 2006-11-09 09:13, Tom Grove <freebsd at voidmain.net> wrote:
> > I just got a new Internet connection through Verizon and need
> > to be able to use a smarthost to send mail.  All servers that I
> > can use required SMTP auth and I need to figure out a way to
> > have Sendmail authenticate with the smarthost.  Is this
> > possible and could someone lead me in the right direction?
>
> You can start with:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html
>
> If this isn't enough, or you still have questions about the way
> to set up SMTP Authentication with Sendmail on FreeBSD, let me
> know.  I'll try to answer your questions *and* update the section
> with whatever is not as clear as we would like it to be.
>
> - Giorgos
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-questions at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to
"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>