Automatic email relay agent?

[Hongwei Li]

> Am Mi, den 30.11.2005 schrieb Hongwei Li um 21:32:
>
>> Thank you very much for the help!  I uncomment the line
>>
>> DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=submission, Name=MSA, M=Ea')dnl
>>
>> but, I have a question: if outlook express does not use port 587, then what
>> to
>> do?  How to make sure that if outlook express finds port 25 blocked, it will
>> try port 587?
>
> You don't have to use SMTP AUTH through the submission port. It is
> common to offer AUTH on standard port 25.
>
>> What about the other line
>>
>> dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl
>>
>> does that help if it is uncomment too?
>
> No need for that either. Even I think poorly designed MUAs like OE can
> not handle SMTPS.
>
>> Hongwei
>
> Pleas read a howto for enabling SMTP AUTH running Sendmail, i.e.
> following
>
> http://www.joreybump.com/code/howto/smtpauth.html
>
> Just note that the location of the TLS certificates changes with FC4
> release. So if you offer STARTTLS to secure insecure AUTH mechanisms
> LOGIN and PLAIN (Outlook and OE can't use secure MD5 mechanisms) - which
> is highly recommended to be secured - make sure you define the propers
> paths.
>
> Alexander
>

A question: when I run make sendmail.pem, it asks:

Country Name (2 letter code) [GB]:

does GB mean "Great British"?  I am in USA, so what should I enter? US?

Thanks!

Hongwei