Help: -- How to setup sendmail.mc and /etc/mail/authinfo for sbcglobal.net users??

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 10:58 -0700, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  Thanks a lot for replys from helpful people here. But
> I still have problems for my sendmail 8.13.6 on Fedora
> Core 4. 
> 
>  I followed the instructions at
> http://efflandt.freeshell.org/sbc-smtp-auth.html, but
> "make -C /etc/mail" fails and sendmail.cf does not
> know how to use my authentication info.
> 
Make the change in sendmail.mc, then the "make -C /etc/mail" creates the
sendmail.cf file from the .mc file

You also need the sendmail-cf package installed in order to make the
changes.

>  My /etc/mail/autoinfo file is:
> 
> [root at testnode01 mail]# cat /etc/mail/authinfo
> AuthInfo:smtp.sbc.mail.yahoo4.akadns.net "U:root"
> "I:myUserID at sbcglobal.net" "P:myPasswd"
> [root at testnode01 mail]# 
> 
> 
>  The following are the results:
> 
> [root at testnode01 mail]# make -C /etc/mail
> make: Entering directory `/etc/mail'
> sendmail.mc:50: m4: Cannot open
> /usr/share/sendmail-cf/feature/authinfo hash -o 
> /etc/mail/authinfo.m4: No such file or directory
> make: Leaving directory `/etc/mail'
> [root at testnode01 mail]# make -C /etc/mail
> make: Entering directory `/etc/mail'
> make: Nothing to be done for `all'.
> make: Leaving directory `/etc/mail'
> [root at testnode01 mail]# /etc/init.d/sendmail restart 
> Shutting down sendmail:                               
>     [  OK  ]
> Shutting down sm-client:                              
>     [  OK  ]
> Starting sendmail:                                    
>     [  OK  ]
> Starting sm-client:                                   
>     [  OK  ]
> [root at testnode01 mail]# cat /var/tmp/mail.txt |
> /usr/lib/sendmail -Am -vvv -t
> myUserID at sbcglobal.net... Connecting to
> smtp.sbc.mail.yahoo4.akadns.net. via rela
> y...
> 220 smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ESMTP
> >>> EHLO testnode01.example.com
> 250-smtp103.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com
> 250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN XYMCOOKIE
> 250-PIPELINING
> 250 8BITMIME
> >>> MAIL From:<root at testnode01.example.com>
> 530 authentication required - for help go to
> http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbc/d
> sl/mail/pop/pop-11.html
> /root/dead.letter... Saved message in
> /root/dead.letter
> Closing connection to smtp.sbc.mail.yahoo4.akadns.net.
> >>> QUIT
> [root at testnode01 mail]#
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Don Maxwell <don.maxwell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 4/10/06, Robinson Tiemuqinke
> > <hahaha_30k at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Any one knows how to setup FC4/FC5 sendmail on
> > behalf
> > > on sbcglobal.net DSL users?
> > 
> > 
> > Here is the page that I used for guidance in
> > configuring my sendmail to use
> > the sbcglobal servers.  The information on AUTH was
> > most helpful:
> > http://efflandt.freeshell.org/sbc-smtp-auth.html
> > 
> > I saved the link about a year ago when SBC required
> > userauth to use their
> > SMTP servers and blocked outbound port 25.  It
> > worked well, and I forgot all
> > about it until FC5 update changed my config files. 
> > Minutes later, I was
> > back in business.
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