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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 01:07:49
Message-Id: 201112310106.27806.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server by Harry Putnam
1 On Saturday 31 Dec 2011 00:40:23 Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 > [...]
5 >
6 > >> | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:root" "I:hputnam3@×××××.com" "P:??XX??" "M:
7 > >> | LOGIN PLAIN" Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:root"
8 > >> | "I:hputnam3@×××××.com" "P:??XX??" "M: LOGIN PLAIN"
9 > >>
10 > >> `----
11 > >
12 > > Did you try just "M: PLAIN" without the "LOGIN" ?
13 > >
14 > > If PLAIN doesn't do it, then use just LOGIN.
15 > >
16 > > Unless you have a typo in there, try starting the stanzas with:
17 > > "AuthInfo:"
18 >
19 > It was that silly typo causing my grief. The various kinds of login
20 > do not seem to make any difference it just works now.
21 >
22 > [...]
23 >
24 > Mick Wrote:
25 > > I am going from memory here (no access to the server at this moment) but
26 > > I recall that this entry should be in /etc/mail/client-info instead, and
27 > > you
28 >
29 > > will need of course to create the client-info.db after your changes:
30 > It seems not to matter where inside /etc/mail you keep authinfo as
31 > long as there is a line in sendmail.mc pointing to the location like
32 > mine does.
33 >
34 > >> FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/authinfo')dnl
35 >
36 > Many thanks for the helpful input. Your sharp I spotted the one fatal
37 > problem. I doubt if I would have found that in a month of Sundays.
38
39 Glad you got it sorted and that I could be of help.
40
41 Happy New Year to all!
42 --
43 Regards,
44 Mick

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