Sendmail, gmail, ssl?, sasl? aaargh

[Kevin Arhelger]

I set this up years ago but can't remember the details.

Google should be able to provide an answer though.
http://rajasuperman.blogspot.com/2006/09/gmail-as-smarthost-for-fre_115764792412436946.html
was something I easily found.

You basically just need to setup smarthost to do SMTP+SSL authentication.

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Woodchuck <marmot at pennswoods.net> wrote:
> My ISP has gone to using gmail.  I have the fetchmail stuff for
> getting mail to me working.
>
> But now outbound mail is broken.  Formerly, I used a sendmail daemon,
> with queues, etc etc, masquerading, blah blah,
> and with the critical feature of using the ISP smart host, which was
> mail.pennswoods.net.   They (the ISP) have never
> heard of sendmail...  but I gathered from them that now I have to send
> my mail through a new smarthost,
> namely "smtp.gmail.com", through port 465,  using "SSL".   Apparently
> outlook express and that sort of thing
> can do this easily.
>
> I have no clue how to proceed.  Does someone have either clue, or a
> working sendmail .mc or .cf file for
> accomplishing this stunt?  Probably also need an example /etc/mail/access[.db].
>
> I apologize in advance for the lousy formatting of this email, but I
> am now reduced to the shame of using gmail's
> "webmail" "interface".
>
> Needless to say, I've done some research, but it is all gibberish.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave
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Kevin Arhelger
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