On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 11:21:36PM +0530, Amarendra Godbole wrote: > On 10/16/07, Aaron W. Hsu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2007/10/16, Sunnz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Hi, I have read the man pages of afterboot, sendmail, and also looked > > > > at /usr/share/sendmail/README. I also have tried to google, and are > > > > now confused then ever. > > > > OpenBSD's sendmail is not compiled with the SASL option enabled - > which means, to do an SMTP AUTH with SASL - > 1. add the cyrus-sasl package > 2. re-compile sendmail with -DSASL (add WANT_SMTPAUTH= yes in /etc/mk.conf) > 3. follow a standard tutorial on setting up SMTP AUTH with sendmail > client (AuthInfo option in sendmail, and setting the smarthost entry > in sendmail.cf) > > Hopefully, sendmail should be able to authenticate itself against your > smtp server now. I say hopefully, because, with sendmail, it always > takes me more than one try to get things working (or maybe I am too > dumb! :-)) > > A quick googling turned up the following link which may be useful: > http://www.dsrw.org/~dlg/sysadmin/sendmail/ > A friend of mine has written another useful document on setting > sendmail as a client with smtp auth: > http://www.hserus.net/wiki/index.php/Sendmail
Wouldn't it be easier to just install exim? Does the exim packaged for OpenBSD do this out of the box? FWIW it does on Debian. Doug.
