[Gllug] sendmail Smart Host Authentcation

[Ken Smith]

Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> 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
>   
Thank you - I found the same info in the sendmail docs package. Having 
dug deeper with ethereal I think the problem is actually btclick being 
very picky about the source e-mail address.....

Many thanks

Ken

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