Using sendmail as a client with auth

[Bernt Hansson]

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
>