sendmail && SMTP AUTH: question about /etc/mail/auth/client-info file

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Friday, January 08, 2010 a las 06:44:00AM +0000, Glyn Millington escribió:

> Matthias Apitz writes:
>  > Hello,
>  > 
>  > Because I was forced by my ISP to do so, I have configured successfully
>  > as described in the FBSD docs the sendmail with SMTP AUTH;
>  > 
>  > one question remains: the required file /etc/mail/auth/client-info has 
>  > the line:
>  > 
>  >     AuthInfo:smtp.1blu.de "U:root" "I:YYYYYYYYYYYYY" "P:XXXXXXXXXXXXX"
>  > 
>  > where the I: value is the userID given by the ISP and P: its password;
>  > what does the U: value is good for exactly? thanks in advance
> 
> Hi Matthias,
> 
> U = user
> 
> for details see ....
> 
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html

Hello Glyn,

I have read the above page during my configuration but it does not
explain to me which user must be configured in U: value; Is it me? Or is it
the userID the sendmail daemon is running as? It works with "U:root",
but what does this mean exactly?

Thx

	matthias

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