Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Saturday 31 Dec 2011 00:40:23 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> | Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:root" "I:hputnam3@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M:
> >> | LOGIN PLAIN" Athinfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 "U:root"
> >> | "I:hputnam3@gmail.com" "P:??XX??" "M: LOGIN PLAIN"
> >> 
> >> `----
> > 
> > Did you try just "M: PLAIN" without the "LOGIN" ?
> > 
> > If PLAIN doesn't do it, then use just LOGIN.
> > 
> > Unless you have a typo in there, try starting the stanzas with: 
> > "AuthInfo:"
> 
> It was that silly typo causing my grief.  The various kinds of login
> do not seem to make any difference it just works now.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Mick Wrote:
> > I am going from memory here (no access to the server at this moment) but
> > I recall that this entry should be in /etc/mail/client-info instead, and
> > you
> 
> > will need of course to create the client-info.db after your changes:
> It seems not to matter where inside /etc/mail you keep authinfo as
> long as there is a line in sendmail.mc pointing to the location like
> mine does.
> 
> >>  FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/authinfo')dnl
> 
> Many thanks for the helpful input.  Your sharp I spotted the one fatal
> problem.  I doubt if I would have found that in a month of Sundays.

Glad you got it sorted and that I could be of help.

Happy New Year to all!
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Regards,
Mick

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