Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:35:16 +0100 From: Nikola =?utf-8?B?UGF2bG92acSH?= <nzp@riseup.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth Message-ID: <20120213163516.GA9706@sputnjik.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4F392C2D.70900@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4F39278A.8040502@bananmonarki.se> <4F392C2D.70900@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 03:28:45PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/02/2012 15:08, Bernt Hansson wrote: > > Is this is OT then i'm sorry. > > > > Trying to get sendmail act as a mua, following this tutorial > > > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html > > > > Scroll down a bit to Using send.... > > > > Is it really necessary to install cycrus-sasl2? > > > > How do one make sendmail to pick sasl2 up when building sendmail. > > Is there a make.conf line I must add? When telnetting auth works > > but using telnet to send mail has a very low WAF. > > > > I've installed cyrus-sasl2 but then what. > > Yes -- you do need cyrus-sasl2 for this purpose. > > To build sendmail with SASL, either use the ports version in > mail/sendmail, where you can select SASL as one of the options, > or add: > > SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include -DSASL=2 > SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib > SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 > > to /etc/make.conf -- see /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf for more > details. This will give you a SASL-enabled base system sendmail once > you rebuild it. > > Note that the second choice makes your base system dependent on stuff > external to it, which may or may not be desirable. > > Oh, and before anyone else chimes in with a knee-jerk reaction about > using sendmail: there are other MTAs that can provide this > functionality. As an alternative, either postfix or exim could do what > you want too. Sendmail works just fine for me though. > If I understood Bernt correctly, he wants to use it to relay mail to some remote MTA (ISP's or similar). There are lightweight MTAs just for this purpose, I use mail/msmtp and it works great with multiple accounts. Usually, this is much simpler to set up than using a real MTA like Sendmail or Postfix. Not that I have anything against using Sendmail and friends for this purpose. Just my $0.02. ;) -- news: gotcha
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