Authentication

[Peter Howe]

I have a Linux server which needs to send mail to various external people.

My company has an SMTP server for this purpose and so I set "DS" in
sendmail.cf to point at this server - and everything works fine for sending
mail internally within my organisation.

But they have authentication setup on this SMTP server which is required for
sending mail anywhere outside of the company. So I thought I could just
configure my server with a default-auth-info file with the correct username
and password in it... but it doesn't seem to work.

I can still send mails internally via the SMTP server. But other mails
disappear from my local queue but don't seem to get delivered. Any ideas?
Am I even doing the right thing with default-auth-info?

Sorry for being a bit of a novice here...

Pete

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[Sebastian Jaenicke]

Peter Howe <peter...@REMOVECAPSxenzero.com> wrote:
[..]

> My company has an SMTP server for this purpose and so I set "DS" in
> sendmail.cf to point at this server - and everything works fine for sending

Modify sendmail.mc and create a new sendmail.cf, never edit the sendmail.cf
file directly.

> But they have authentication setup on this SMTP server which is required for
> sending mail anywhere outside of the company. So I thought I could just
> configure my server with a default-auth-info file with the correct username

Which sendmail version? Compiled with SASL support?

See http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html

> I can still send mails internally via the SMTP server. But other mails
> disappear from my local queue but don't seem to get delivered. Any ideas?

Log entries?

- Sebastian
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