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Configure sendmail for SMTP relay with your ISP

26 September 2009, 5:51 pm

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Author:  Sven Knispel
Updated:  05-01-2005
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The following article explains the setup of sendmail for forwarding mails to your ISP\’s smtp server.
It is assumed that you have sendmail up-to-date and configured properly.
Note: this setup does not work properly for smtp-server using

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SASL

(e.g. like

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smtp.pobox.com

)
Most of the commands must be executed with the corresponding rights (using

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sudo

).

1. configure your smtp-server

(this requires that you have the package

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sendmail-cf

installed)

1.1. changes to

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/etc/mail/sendmail.mc

Uncomment the definition

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SMART_HOST

and add the correspondign

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FEATURE

to it:

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            define(`SMART_HOST\', `your-smtp-server\')<br />            FEATURE(authinfo)dnl

Note: Please note, that these are \”oriented\” quotes.

1.2. create the new

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sendmail.cf

Stop sendmail by issuing the command

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/sbin/service sendmail stop

and log on as

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root

to issue this command.

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            m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc &gt; /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
1
 

1.3. Define the account information for connecting to the smtp-server

Edit/create

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/etc/mail/authinfo

and add the following line:

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              AuthInfo:&lt;your-smtp-server&gt; \"U:&lt;your-smtp-user&gt;\" \"P:&lt;your-smtp-password&gt;\" \"M:DIGEST-MD5\"

Note:The

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M:

may vary depending on the capabilities of the smtp-server (e.g.

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CRAM-MD5, PLAIN

).

Create

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authinfo.db

:

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              makemap hash /etc/mail/authinfo &lt; /etc/mail/authinfo

and finally restart sendmail:

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                /sbin/service sendmail restart

1.4. Configure header rewriting (optional)

Header rewriting consists in replacing the

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From:

and

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Reply to:

in the header of an outgoing mail in order for the recipient to reply to a valid address.
This can be set by editing the file

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/etc/mail/userdb

:

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&lt;local-name&gt;:mailname &lt;email-adsress&gt;

E.g.:

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              # /etc/mail/userdb <br />              sven:mailname sven@foo.org

Finally create the corresponding database:

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              makemap btree /etc/mail/userdb.db &lt; /etc/mail/userdb

… and finally restart sendmail:

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                /sbin/service sendmail restart

1.5. Test your settings

Issue following commands and check the trace for verifying the delivery path:

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              /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv root@localhost

Should show a \”local\” delivery.

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              /usr/sbin/sendmail -bv &lt;your-mail&gt;@&lt;your-domain&gt;

Should show a delivery path through your ISP.

For troubleshooting you should check the mail-log:

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/var/log/maillog

2. Forwarding

Forward can be defined in

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~/.forward

. (just enter the e-mail addressto forward to). Note:The permissions of that file must be adjusted correspondingly in order to avoid sendmail ignoring it (see

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/var/log/maillog

in case of problems).

3. References

For further information I recommend to check following link:

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