Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:12:11 +0100 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using sendmail as a client with auth Message-ID: <4F39ED2B.5010707@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <4F392C2D.70900@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4F39278A.8040502@bananmonarki.se> <4F392C2D.70900@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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2012-02-13 16:28, Matthew Seaman skrev: Thank you for your answer. > 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. Is that rebuild as in cd /usr/src && make buildworld or cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail && make > 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. > > Cheers, > > Matthew >
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