sendmail SMTP-AUTH

[Justin Krejci]

I am not a sendmail admin and generally try to avoid it where possible so I
am not sure about the configuration file needs but you should be able to
connect to the mail server and issue the ehlo command to see if it is active
in your current running binary. After re-compiling and installing you will
of course have to restart sendmail so it loads the newly made binary
executable.

 

To check using telnet

 

telnet IPADDRESS 25

220 your.hostname.here ESMTP Sendmail

ehlo f

 

Once you issue the "ehlo" command it should give you the output similar to
this

 

250-your.mailserver.name Hello youraddress, pleased to meet you

250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES

250-PIPELINING

250-8BITMIME

250-SIZE

250-DSN

250-ETRN

250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN

250-DELIVERBY

250 HELP

 

There may be more or less stuff than this but the key you are looking for is
the AUTH LOGIN PLAIN. It may show up with other things like CRAM-MD5 on the
same line.

 

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From: openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org
[mailto:openbsd-newbies-bounces at sfobug.org] On Behalf Of Tony Berth
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 8:56 AM
To: Woodchuck
Cc: openbsd-newbies at sfobug.org
Subject: Re: sendmail SMTP-AUTH

 

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Woodchuck <marmot at pennswoods.net> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Tony Berth wrote:

> > Re-compiling sendmail probably translates to
> >        # cd /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail
> >        # make clean
> >        # make obj
> >        # make
> >        # make install
> >
>

> I did create mk.conf but sendmail is located in:
>
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail

Yes.  This is for the whole sendmail suite of pgms.

As I suggested :-)


> or
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail/sendmail

No


> or
> /usr/src/usr.bin/file/magdir/sendmail

No.


> The first is the correct one?

Yes.


Dave
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up to now everything worked fine. I did recompile and no errors showed up!

Now, how do I verify that SMTP-AUTH capability is included? Any conf file I
should look into?

Thanks

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