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I am trying to set up sendmail to send outgoing email through my yahoo smtp server, but got lost and confused. How can I make sendmail forward outgoing mail to yahoo smtp server? Yahoo smtp server needs authentication, how do I set that up?
In the first place, why are you using your own mailserver when you already can connect to a yahoo smtp server for sending mail to the world? If there is no special requirement, then all you need to do is to configure all the mail clients with the smtp server as the yahoo server. Most mail clients can be configured to send mail via a server that requires authentication.
Well, I was trying to get system services and other packages to send things to my real email instead of local email box by using sendmail... After some tinkering with it, I think I have it working (*somewhat*). I still need to figure out how to make all email seem like it came from my yahoo account and not root@localhost.localdomain...
Has anyone been able to set up sendmail to send all email through an external smtp server and so it would arrive with 'from:' being from a specified email?
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