Re: Using sendmail as outbound MTA, but with SSL

From: Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de>
Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2025 12:48:00 UTC 
El día jueves, diciembre 25, 2025 a las 10:35:33a. m. +0200, Lena@lena.kiev.ua escribió:

> > > have to bypass sendmail with a configuration in mutt to send mails to
> > > smtp.1blu.de:465
> 
> > > My question is, is there a way to configure sendmail to use SSL port 465
> > > to the remote mail HUB?
> 
> > 4. enable services in file /etc/rc.conf
> > 
> > 	sendmail_enable="YES"
> > 	saslauthd_enable="YES"
> 
> I installed sendmail package from pkg.freebsd.org
> (`pkg install sendmail`, no recompile).
> It installed dependencies cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-saslauthd,
> but I don't start saslauthd daemon.
> I have also openssl package installed for fetch-mail function of my MUA (mutt),
> but I'm not sure whether it's relevant for sendmail and sasl (I guess not).
> 
> ...

Lena (and all others), thanks for all your helping comments. I will
return to my home in two days and will, with more time, investigate the
proposed solutions. They should work also when I'm in Germany and I will
return to Cuba prepared better.

	matthias

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