Re: SMTP authentication for sendmail using binary-only host system

From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd_at_m5p.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2024 18:57:05 UTC 
On 3/12/24 14:48, bob prohaska wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 02:01:19PM -0400, George Mitchell wrote:
>> There's a port (package) for sendmail, and it would appear that the
>> necessary options (SASL and SASLAUTHD) are on by default.  And TLS
>> is also on.                                              -- George
> 
> The host in question is running
> 14.0-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p5 #0: Tue Feb 13 23:49:05 UTC 2024
> root@arm64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm64.aarch64/sys/GENERIC arm64
> 
> Sendmail was configured using
> cp /usr/share/examples/sendmail/mailer.conf /etc/mail/mailer.conf
> so no local customizations. Might it be sufficent to run
> pkg install cyrus-sasl
> and accept the defaults?
> 
> Thanks for writing!
> 
> bob prohaska
> 
I don't know, since I'm not in a position to try it that way.  But it
does sound like it's worth a try to see what happens, and I suspect it
would work.  Sorry I can't be more definite.               -- George