Sendmail needs authentication with Smart Host

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Thu Jan 13 01:12:13 UTC 2011


On 01/12/2011 07:01 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 01/12/2011 03:29 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>> It doesn't work
>> to just set the SMART_HOST, and I can't seem to find the right macro for
>> user/password authentication information....
> 
> Most of what you need is at http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_auth.html
> 
> What it doesn't mention is that after rebuilding sendmail.cf and before 
> restarting sendmail you need to run this:
> 
> makemap hash /etc/mail/authinfo < /etc/mail/authinfo

Thanks Joe, I will read, implement, and test!

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