Mailing from the command line repost
Interesting.
Couple of comments: I've never had any dislike of sendmail, and its smtp auth works fine for me, and I didn't have any problem turning it on, so I kinda always gawk when a person say ssendmail is much too complicated and then shows how easy it is in postfix by printing out a mile long set of configuration instructions that look like they are in danish, and make no intrnsic sense to my eyes at all!
In a rare fit of cleaning I ran across an Iomega Ditto Easy 3200 magtape (parallel port interface), leftover from a M$ system years ago. Rattling...
That is the case for your smtp auth entry :-).
Looking in my sendmail.mc file, I see
FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash -oetc-mail-authinfo')dnl
while in the latter file, I see:
AuthInfo:linuxmail.org "U:ptb" "I:ptb:MYUSERLOGINTHERE" "P:MYPbuttWORDTHERE" "R:linuxmail.org" "M:DIGEST-MD5"
which I don't think breaks the old brain muscles. Yu might ask why there are different U and I entries, but it really is the case that user ptb does not login as ptb to their server, but as some silly variant of that involving the name of their relay and a hash mark.
The other comment I had is .. you may someday want my procmail rule for BOUNCING ms doc material, uuencoded, with an explanation, back to the sender.
Peter
Iomega Ditto MagtapeNo Valid Device
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