How to login from sendmail?

I have RH9 and I changed ISP. My new ISP (SBC) requires
me to authenticate to their SMTP server, which pretty much
prevents me from using sendmail. Is there a way to have a
local email server that could authenticate itself to the ISP?
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"Mladen Gogala" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I have RH9 and I changed ISP. My new ISP (SBC) requires
> me to authenticate to their SMTP server, which pretty much
> prevents me from using sendmail. Is there a way to have a
> local email server that could authenticate itself to the ISP?

In your sendmail.mc file, *above* the MAILER() definitions, e.g.:

define(`SMART_HOST',`sbcmx3.prodigy.net')dnl
FEATURE(`authinfo')dnl

and in /etc/mail/authinfo, e.g.:

AuthInfo:sbcmx3.prodigy.net "U:(E-Mail Removed)"
"P:yoursbcglobalpassword" "M:CRAM-MD5"

Then

# makemap hash /etc/mail/authinfo < /etc/mail/authinfo

Rebuild the sendmail.cf file and restart the daemon.

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On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 23:33:39 GMT, Mladen Gogala <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have RH9 and I changed ISP. My new ISP (SBC) requires
> me to authenticate to their SMTP server, which pretty much
> prevents me from using sendmail. Is there a way to have a
> local email server that could authenticate itself to the ISP?

It is standard SMTP AUTH which sendmail can do as a client. I have info
that may help at http://efflandt.freeshell.org/sbc-smtp-auth.html