Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:02:56 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Glyn Millington <glyn@millingtons.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail && SMTP AUTH: question about /etc/mail/auth/client-info file Message-ID: <20100108090256.GA1998@current.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <19270.54320.163083.261490@millingtons.org> References: <20100107155451.GA26295@current.Sisis.de> <19270.54320.163083.261490@millingtons.org>
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El día Friday, January 08, 2010 a las 06:44:00AM +0000, Glyn Millington escribió: > Matthias Apitz writes: > > Hello, > > > > Because I was forced by my ISP to do so, I have configured successfully > > as described in the FBSD docs the sendmail with SMTP AUTH; > > > > one question remains: the required file /etc/mail/auth/client-info has > > the line: > > > > AuthInfo:smtp.1blu.de "U:root" "I:YYYYYYYYYYYYY" "P:XXXXXXXXXXXXX" > > > > where the I: value is the userID given by the ISP and P: its password; > > what does the U: value is good for exactly? thanks in advance > > Hi Matthias, > > U = user > > for details see .... > > http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html Hello Glyn, I have read the above page during my configuration but it does not explain to me which user must be configured in U: value; Is it me? Or is it the userID the sendmail daemon is running as? It works with "U:root", but what does this mean exactly? Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU The Lisbon Treaty: http://www.no-means-no.eu
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