On 10/16/07, Aaron W. Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 17:17:36 +0200 > > From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Samuel_Mo=F1ux?=" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: How do I configure sendmail? > > > > 2007/10/16, Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi, I have read the man pages of afterboot, sendmail, and also looked > > > at /usr/share/sendmail/README. I also have tried to google, and are > > > now confused then ever. > > > > Look at "Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client" > > section in that file. I think its all what you need. > > Are you sure that this is everything he needs? From my experience with > OpenBSD's Sendmail configuration, he needs SASL to authenticate to his > smtps server. Normally, this would be a simple, compiled in option on > most sendmails, and then, he could follow the instructions in the README > file for setting up his configuration. (BTW, Sunnz, there are some good > tutorials dedicated to just this if you don't understand the file format > of the access file.) > > However, when I tried to do this at first, with my SASL enabled > Slackware mail server, I ran into trouble. For some reason, my OpenBSD > sendmail did not have the capacity to authenticate using SASL and normal > SMTP AUTH. I was led to believe that this was the way sendmail was > compiled on OpenBSD, and that I would need to recompile sendmail with > new options to get the needed SMTP AUTH functionality. Is this true? [...]
OpenBSD's sendmail is not compiled with the SASL option enabled - which means, to do an SMTP AUTH with SASL - 1. add the cyrus-sasl package 2. re-compile sendmail with -DSASL (add WANT_SMTPAUTH= yes in /etc/mk.conf) 3. follow a standard tutorial on setting up SMTP AUTH with sendmail client (AuthInfo option in sendmail, and setting the smarthost entry in sendmail.cf) Hopefully, sendmail should be able to authenticate itself against your smtp server now. I say hopefully, because, with sendmail, it always takes me more than one try to get things working (or maybe I am too dumb! :-)) A quick googling turned up the following link which may be useful: http://www.dsrw.org/~dlg/sysadmin/sendmail/ A friend of mine has written another useful document on setting sendmail as a client with smtp auth: http://www.hserus.net/wiki/index.php/Sendmail -Amarendra
