On Sunday 08 February 2009, Harry Putnam wrote:

> I'm including this on the list since I think there will be others who
> may find it useful.

Someone is bound to need it sooner or later, but it was not strictly speaking 
gentoo-user M/L material so I posted it as off topic.

> cat /etc/mail/authinfo
> # [HP 02/04/06 23:14  NOTE make sure to makemap hash authinfo < authinfo]

This was my first mistake - in rushing through I did not update the db every 
time I made a change.

> AuthInfo:smtp.comcast.net  "U:MYUSER" 

Aha!  This was my second mistake - I used smmsp as the user.  I thought that 
this was the process runnind sendmail on my mailserver.

> "I:MYUSER@comcast.net" "P:MYPASSWD" 
> "M: LOGIN PLAIN" # end authinfo
>
> Heed the comment about makemap or authinfo won't work.

Thank you very much for your help!  :)
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Regards,
Mick