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

No, If you installed sendmail from packages, you have to follow the instructions
in the package message.
Also, cyrus-sasl should be installed as a dependency.
See pkg query %M sendmail.

excerpt:
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To use the binaries supplied by the port you should add the following lines
to your sendmail.mc file before any mailer or feature definition:

define(`confEBINDIR', `/usr/local/libexec')dnl
define(`UUCP_MAILER_PATH', `/usr/local/bin/uux')dnl

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To activate sendmail as your default mailer, run:
$ cd /usr/local/etc/mail && cp mailer.conf.sendmail mailer.conf

Your '/usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf' should look like this:
#
# Execute the "real" sendmail program, named /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
#
sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq           /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
hoststat        /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
purgestat       /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

You may also need to update /etc/rc.conf.


On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 11:48:30 -0700
bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> 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
> 
>