[Gllug] sendmail Smart Host Authentcation

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 23:51 +0000, Ken Smith wrote:
> Ken Smith wrote:
> > My Google foo is not working for me today. What is the recommenced setup 
> > to get sendmail to authenticate with a outgoing smtp server. I'm getting 
> > conflicting ideas from google....
> >
> > The environment is FC6. I've tried various incantations in /etc/access, 
> > having set up the smarthost in sendmail.mc and rebuilt access.db and 
> > sendmail.cf,  but mail.btclick.com isn't having any of it.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Ken
> >
> >   
> I'm still banging my head against this problem. Is there anyone who has 
> successfully got sendmail to authenticate with an external mail server 
> who could share their config? That would be much appreciated. I haven't 
> analysed the protocol on the wire with ethereal yet but currently the 
> evidence suggests that this function is broken in sendmail at the moment.
> 
> :-(

At the risk of stating the obvious, look for m4 stuff - eg
http://www.sendmail.org/m4/smtp_auth.html
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