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On Sunday 08 February 2009, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I'm including this on the list since I think there will be others who |
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> may find it useful. |
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Someone is bound to need it sooner or later, but it was not strictly speaking |
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gentoo-user M/L material so I posted it as off topic. |
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> cat /etc/mail/authinfo |
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> # [HP 02/04/06 23:14 NOTE make sure to makemap hash authinfo < authinfo] |
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This was my first mistake - in rushing through I did not update the db every |
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time I made a change. |
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> AuthInfo:smtp.comcast.net "U:MYUSER" |
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Aha! This was my second mistake - I used smmsp as the user. I thought that |
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this was the process runnind sendmail on my mailserver. |
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> "I:MYUSER@×××××××.net" "P:MYPASSWD" |
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> "M: LOGIN PLAIN" # end authinfo |
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> Heed the comment about makemap or authinfo won't work. |
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Thank you very much for your help! :) |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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