MTA besides sendmail?

Anyone suggest an MTA that I can easily configure to relay mail through
my ISP using SSL over port 465 and that can be used with a mail client
like mutt?

My problm is I've been trying to get sendmail to do it by following
this,
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/au...thinstsendmail
but can't get SASL compiled in. Checked my lib and include dirs,
everything compiles fine with no errors but no SASL when is do
"sendmail -d0.1 -bv". I posted in the sendmail group but in the mean
time I thought I ask if anyone had successfully used anything else for
relaying with a username and pass via port 465 through SSL. Thanks for
any suggestions.

On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:04:06 -0800, Nietzsche wrote:

> Anyone suggest an MTA that I can easily configure to relay mail through
> my ISP using SSL over port 465 and that can be used with a mail client
> like mutt?
>
> My problm is I've been trying to get sendmail to do it by following
> this,
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/au...thinstsendmail
> but can't get SASL compiled in. Checked my lib and include dirs,
> everything compiles fine with no errors but no SASL when is do
> "sendmail -d0.1 -bv". I posted in the sendmail group but in the mean
> time I thought I ask if anyone had successfully used anything else for
> relaying with a username and pass via port 465 through SSL. Thanks for
> any suggestions.

I can't say for certain, but postfix will probably do the trick.
I have confifgured postfix to do smtp auth and it was fairly
easy. There are several web pages that talk about postfix
and port 465 and tls and ssl stuff. I'm pretty sure that you'll
be able to get postfix going fairly easy.

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On Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:22:15 GMT, Jack Snodgrass wrote:

> I can't say for certain, but postfix will probably do the trick.
> I have confifgured postfix to do smtp auth and it was fairly
> easy. There are several web pages that talk about postfix
> and port 465 and tls and ssl stuff. I'm pretty sure that you'll
> be able to get postfix going fairly easy.


And OP might look on http://www.postfix.org/ for documentation

On 31 Oct 2006 16:04:06 -0800, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Nietzsche:

> My problm is I've been trying to get sendmail to do it by following
> this,
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/au...thinstsendmail
> but can't get SASL compiled in. Checked my lib and include dirs,
> everything compiles fine with no errors but no SASL when is do
> "sendmail -d0.1 -bv". I posted in the sendmail group but in the mean
> time I thought I ask if anyone had successfully used anything else for
> relaying with a username and pass via port 465 through SSL. Thanks for
> any suggestions.

I have Cyrus-SASL working perfectly with sendmail for sending e-mail
via SMTP-AUTH enabled mail servers. I'm assuming you only want to
connect to a SMTP-AUTH enabled relay server.

It's a bit fiddly but here's the steps:

1. emerge cyrus-sasl (don't bother configuring database stuff)
2. USE="sasl" emerge sendmail
3. Modify /etc/sendmail.mc to include the following:
define(`SMART_HOST', `your isp relay')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl
4. Generate sendmail.cf by doing m4 sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
5. Create /etc/mail/auth subdirectory
6. Configure /etc/mail/auth/client-info with information necessary so
sendmail can authenticate itself with the remote relay sever.

Now start sendmail and test it by sending an e-mail through.
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"Nietzsche" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Anyone suggest an MTA that I can easily configure to relay mail through
>my ISP using SSL over port 465 and that can be used with a mail client
>like mutt?
>
>My problm is I've been trying to get sendmail to do it by following
>this,
>http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/au...thinstsendmail
>but can't get SASL compiled in. Checked my lib and include dirs,
>everything compiles fine with no errors but no SASL when is do
>"sendmail -d0.1 -bv". I posted in the sendmail group but in the mean
>time I thought I ask if anyone had successfully used anything else for
>relaying with a username and pass via port 465 through SSL. Thanks for
>any suggestions.

I have been using Knoppix/Debian which uses 'smail' as the default
MTA.

My ISP blocks all attempts to send email to other port 25 SMTP
servers.

After much tinkering I am able to send mail to my alternate SMTP
server running on an alternate port and using AUTH.

Basically, I use smail, a smarthost and pipe throught esmtp to the
alternate host. It has been working well for a few months now.

Basically, get esmtp working alone first then configure the smail
smarthost/pipe.

Good luck.
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Alex Buell wrote:

> I have Cyrus-SASL working perfectly with sendmail for sending e-mail
> via SMTP-AUTH enabled mail servers. I'm assuming you only want to
> connect to a SMTP-AUTH enabled relay server.
>
> It's a bit fiddly but here's the steps:
>
> 1. emerge cyrus-sasl (don't bother configuring database stuff)
> 2. USE="sasl" emerge sendmail
> 3. Modify /etc/sendmail.mc to include the following:
> define(`SMART_HOST', `your isp relay')dnl
> define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl
> 4. Generate sendmail.cf by doing m4 sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> 5. Create /etc/mail/auth subdirectory
> 6. Configure /etc/mail/auth/client-info with information necessary so
> sendmail can authenticate itself with the remote relay sever.
>
> Now start sendmail and test it by sending an e-mail through.

Thanks for the feedback. I did the same, it's summarized here:
http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/au...thinstsendmail

One thing not mentioned is I had to add

define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 465')
define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 465')

to the sendmial.mc to get sendmail to send on 465.

Anyway it still doesn't work . I've checked the info in
/etc/mail/auth/client-info and everything over and over. I can see
sendmail trying to connect to the right host on posrt 465 with
"netstat" but all I get is "connection reset [by peer]". When I send
from thunderbird, the remot host always sends back a certificate.
Wonder if sendmail is waiting for some action when it gets that cert?

Nietzsche wrote:
> Alex Buell wrote:
>
> > I have Cyrus-SASL working perfectly with sendmail for sending e-mail
> > via SMTP-AUTH enabled mail servers. I'm assuming you only want to
> > connect to a SMTP-AUTH enabled relay server.
> >
> > It's a bit fiddly but here's the steps:
> >
> > 1. emerge cyrus-sasl (don't bother configuring database stuff)
> > 2. USE="sasl" emerge sendmail
> > 3. Modify /etc/sendmail.mc to include the following:
> > define(`SMART_HOST', `your isp relay')dnl
> > define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
> > FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl
> > 4. Generate sendmail.cf by doing m4 sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
> > 5. Create /etc/mail/auth subdirectory
> > 6. Configure /etc/mail/auth/client-info with information necessary so
> > sendmail can authenticate itself with the remote relay sever.
> >
> > Now start sendmail and test it by sending an e-mail through.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I did the same, it's summarized here:
> http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/au...thinstsendmail
>
> One thing not mentioned is I had to add
>
> define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 465')
> define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 465')
>
> to the sendmial.mc to get sendmail to send on 465.
>
> Anyway it still doesn't work . I've checked the info in
> /etc/mail/auth/client-info and everything over and over. I can see
> sendmail trying to connect to the right host on posrt 465 with
> "netstat" but all I get is "connection reset [by peer]". When I send
> from thunderbird, the remot host always sends back a certificate.
> Wonder if sendmail is waiting for some action when it gets that cert?

As mentioned in the above link, what AuthMechanisms
(confAUTH_MECHANISMS) have you used? Did you try anything other than
the defaults?

TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5')dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5')dnl



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