Sendmail authentication configuration?

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 10:24 -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> >> 1. I have found various documentation of how to configure my Sendmail
> >> server to *listen* on a port other than 25 but not where I can tell it
> >> to *send* on a different port.  Where do I configure it to relay to a
> >> port other than 25?
> > ----
> > presuming that you are talking about using smtp on a cox based dhcp
> > provisioned net where they block port 25, it's just so much easier to
> > simply use smarthost and relay outbound mail via the cox smtp servers.
> 
> Close but not quite.  Blocking a port is not the real problem.  Let me
> be more explicit.
> 
> - My server must send outbound email via SMTP.
> - The mail server that my server must connect to is *not* listening on
> port 25.  It is listening on some other high port, hypothetically 34380
> for example.
> - The mail server that my server must connect to requires that my server
> authenticate with a user name and password.
> 
> So I need to tell my sendmail to:
> - Use port 34380 for outbound SMTP
> - Use a specific user name and password to authenticate to the server
> 
> The 'SMART_HOST' setting is appropriate, I think, but I don't see either
> how to use a specific port or how to specify a user ID and password.
> 
> > I really like Brennan's Home Server guide for help here (though I don't
> > use sendmail any longer)
> > 
> > http://www.brennan.id.au/12-Sendmail_Server.html#encryption
> 
> This looks like a good resource, thanks.  I'll keep reading it but I
> don't yet see the answers to my questions above.
> 
> > but this is for Fedora/Red Hat systems so YMMV
> 
> The server on my end, the one that I am configuring to send email, is a
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 installation.
> 
> Alan
----
you get the submission port (587) for free (no real effort) by the
instructions I was giving you (listening). I would expect that you can
instruct sendmail to use it for sending without too much difficulty (but
that I am not certain of the methodology).

-- 
Craig White <craig at tobyhouse.com>