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I use SCALIX Community Edition 10.0.1 on OpenSuSE 10.0 and I want to send all external e-mail through a smarthost (SMTP with TLS). Therefore I changed /etc/sendmail.cf and addded ...



Then I added ...

... to /etc/mail/auth/auth-info and made the ...

... as described on http://www.scalix.com/wiki/index.php?ti ... notes/SMTP.


If I now try to send a message to an external address (e.g. external.recipient@gmx.net), I get this reply:


For debugging I did a ...

... on the console and got this result ...

To me this looks like sendmail does not use the correct login (relay@mysmarthost.net) to authenticate to the smarthost. Instead it uses root@store.localdomain.local.
But I'm not an expert on sendmail. Please help.

You might want to take a look at the sendmail.org site for information about authinfo. Normally I just used the default filename and location of /etc/mail/authinfo for my authinfo file. To test what the latest sendmail expects if you want to change that location, I added:



to my sendmail.mc and rebuilt the cf from that. What that produced was:



So, you should change the line in your sendmail.cf file from:



to:



and see if that works. If not, try just putting it in the default location of /etc/mail and rename the file to authinfo.

Thanks,
Rachel

I followed the instructions given at http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/auth.html (Paragraph "Using sendmail as a client with AUTH"), already.

I tried to replace:

by:

and also tried to use the default setting which is:

... on my sendmail (Version 8.13.4-8 i586).

The result is always the same.

I'm assuming you did restart your sendmail after making those changes, right? Have you tried just commenting out that line altogether and just using the default value? Are you certain /etc/mail/default-auto-info is the default on SuSE? I just checked my SLES9 box and it looks like that default file and location is /etc/mail/auth/auth-info.

Are you also certain you're going to the correct "smarthost" for using AuthSMTP for your ISP? Some ISP's have different hosts for Auth and non-Auth SMTP.

Thanks,
Rachel

I restarted sendmail after every change of sendmail.cf with

I commented out

and tried it with

only.
The default entry in my sendmail.cf is

and I tried it with uncommenting this line and copying /etc/mail/auth/auth-info.db to /etc/mail/default-auth-info.db

I tried it with

and with

in my sendmail.cf.
And also with

and with


I am certain it is the correct host. On another box I do the same (same smarthost, same login) with Postfix and it works.

I really would like to use SCALIX but I only can do it with the smarthost - and this is the one and only obstacle.

Did you build your sendmail.cf by your own (using m4)?
Be sure the ruleset authinfo is active and not commented.

Axel, no, I didn't build my sendmail.cf from a *.cm file because I didn't know where to find a SCALIX-adjusted *.mc file. So I prefered to edit my sendmail.cf directly. I did it by adding/uncommenting and editing the three lines mentioned in my original post (see above).

After I found that it does not work I edited /etc/mail/linux.cm (this seems to be the default *.cm file on SuSE 10.0) and built a *.cf from it by using m4. Then I compared the results with my SCALIX-adjusted sendmail.cf.

Nevertheless I tried several variants as mentioned above.

Now I tried it with the *.cf built from /etc/amil/linux.cm and it works

But the question I do have now is: didn't SCALIX change the /etc/sendmail.cf during installation? If yes, these changes are lost, now (not really, of course I have a backup of the other sendmail.cf). How do I merge the SCALIX-adjusted sendmail.cf with the one that works for the smarthost?

ScalixB wrote:How do I merge the SCALIX-adjusted sendmail.cf with the one that works for the smarthost?

This was actually in the next email down :p. Use:

omsendin

That will reinsert the Scalix specific rules into the sendmail.cf file.

Everything works now. Thanks to all of you who contributed to the solution.