On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 08:40:35PM -0700, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Thu, Oct 06, 2005, Eric Dillenseger wrote: > > > I'm trying to setup a sendmail config using tls to use gmail as a > > smart-host. > > Why? Why don't you send mail directly? > Because that way I can receive my mail and organize them in mutt with procmail and reply to message transparently. Some mailing lists do strict checking before accepting mail. If gmail is sending the mail the gmail mx resolves correctly and so the mail is accepted. > > Now I see it successfully connected to gmail smtp, but didn't authenticate. > > My question is, how can I make it authenticate? > > See the fine documentation... but first you need to figure out what > kind of authentication gmail requires: SMTP AUTH or STARTTLS? For > the former see > > Providing SMTP AUTH Data when sendmail acts as Client > > in cf/README.
As I could see, this requires to compile sendmail with -DSASL and install cyrus-sasl, so I've found a workaround with msmtp, thanks anyway. -- "Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code "418 I'm a teapot". The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout." -- HTCPCP Spec, RFC 2324
