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* [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] sendmail relay to gmail smtp server
  @ 2011-12-31  0:40 99%   ` Harry Putnam
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2011-12-31  0:40 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

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.




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