Help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization to smart host

Phusion phusion2k at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 17:37:29 UTC 2009


On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Mark Willson <cdr.nil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Phusion wrote:
>>
>> I need some help configuring sendmail to send only using authorization
>> to a smart host being the ISP's mail server. I'm running 7.2-RELEASE.
>> I've looked over
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/outgoing-only.html but
>> want to use the built-in sendmail. I've run the following command:
>> sendmail -d0.1 -bv, but SASL isn't included. Also, I would rather uses
>> packages. Please advise.
>
> Phusion,
>
> I originally replied via Google, but it doesn't seem to have hit the list,
> so here's a repeat.  Apologies for the repetition, if it occurs.
>
> This link might provide useful information:
> http://www.hydrus.org.uk/journal/smtp-client-auth.html
>
> -mark
>
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I recompiled sendmail and now get the following when running sendmail -d0.1 -bv.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 8.14.3
 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7
                NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2
                SCANF STARTTLS TCPWRAPPERS USERDB XDEBUG

============ SYSTEM IDENTITY (after readcf) ============
      (short domain name) $w = server
  (canonical domain name) $j = server.domain.com
         (subdomain name) $m = domain.com
              (node name) $k = server.domain.com
========================================================

Recipient names must be specified
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I now have added the following to sendmail.mc.

FEATURE(masquerade_envelope)
FEATURE(genericstable, `hash -o /etc/mail/genericstable')
GENERICS_DOMAIN_FILE(`/etc/mail/generics-domains')
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS',`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
FEATURE(authinfo, `hash -o /etc/mail/auth/authinfo')
define(`SMART_HOST', `mail.test.com')
define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names')
dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Name=IPv6, Family=inet6, Modifiers=O')

I created /etc/mail/auth/authinfo and then did the makemaps to create
the hashd .db file. When trying to email outbound, I still get the
same error in the logs.

...relay=mail.test.com. [public_IP_address], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Data format error

The /etc/mail/auth/authinfo file looks like the following.

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AuthInfo:mail.test.com "U:username at isp.com" "P:password"
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I am using the mail server of the local ISP I use. It doesn't appear
that it even checks for authentication. Please advise.

Phusion


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