On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Evert Smit wrote:

Hi list,

by now i found out how to set this up, after spending 3 days of research (i am sorta new to this :) )

Here the link that runs you through the setup of Sendmail >=8.10 using cyrus-sasl to enable sendmail authentication. also i am wondering about your oppinion. Is this a good solution, is it a hack, what do you think

http://www.ledge.co.za/scripts.phtml?page=smtpauth

Without being something like a sendmail expert, i would say it is the normal way to configure sendmail. But have a closer look at the auth mechanisms you use. Some of them are not supported by default in libsasl. You can also find a very detailed explanation of setting up SMTP AUTH with sendmail at Claus Assmann's Homepage http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html or in the file /usr/share/sendmail/README sect. "SMTP AUTHENTICATION".

btw, if someone could mail me the syntax for the following solution smtp over ssl, while running sendmail as independant deamon.

probabbly someting like smtps stream tcp nowait root /usr/sbin/stunnel smtp -p /usr/local/ssl/certs/mail.pem -r smtp

Have a look at http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/starttls.html and/or /usr/share/sendmail/README sect. "STARTTLS". Sendmail supports the newer STARTTLS SMTP extension as defined in RFC2487. AFAIK newer versions of Outlook (>97?) also support it when connecting to port 25 but switch over to SMTPS when using a different port (i.e. 465). So you probably don't need a wrapper. Maybe you will find more information about that when doing a search over one of the archives for newsgroup comp.mail.sendmail.

thanks for yer help, most of my answers i found in the archives here.

regards and good nite Evert

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