Howto configure sendmail SMARTHOST with authentication??

jfaberna · 02-21-2006, 10:30 PM

I need to configure sendmail to use SMART_HOST so my ISP, Earthlink, will not block my SMTP outbound traffic. They told me the name of a SMTP server to use in my define SMART_HOST. However, that SMTP server requires a login. When I configure SMTP on a mail client using that server the authentication is username = my-email@earthink.net, and 'password'. Where do I put that info in the define. The only format I've seen is the one below:

define(`SMART_HOST', 'smtpauth.earthlink.net')

How do I configure the login and password?

Jim A

Pete M · 02-22-2006, 03:35 PM

This may help

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=354488

Read the post carefully as there are 2 options depending on your version of Sendmail

Pete

gilead · 02-22-2006, 04:28 PM

Another very good thread (also here) is at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=224543

jfaberna · 02-22-2006, 09:00 PM

I have the latest version of sendmail, so the second part of:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=354488
worked for me. Just adding the line to /etc/mail/access and rebuilding the DB solved the problem.

Thanks so much for all the help from everyone. Some of the mail things are a bitch to setup.

Thanks again.

Jim A.