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To configure a smarthost (with authentication) for sendmail, you'll have to create a file called /etc/mail/auth/client-info and modify the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc.
Configure authentication
Let's start with creating the file /etc/mail/auth/client-info. The content in of this file represents your login credentials for the smarthost. It should look like the example below:
AuthInfo:<smarthost> "U:<username>" "I:<account>" "P:<password>"
Where: <smarthost> is the fully qualified domain name (fqdn) of your smarthost <username> is the userid used to login at the smarthost (often your email address) <account> is the account to be used for your smarthost (often your email address as well) <password> is the password that belongs to your smarthost username
Next, you'll have to build the password hash database with this command:
sudo bash -c "cd /etc/mail/auth/ && makemap hash client-info < client-info"
Configure sendmail
Now you have prepared the authentication setup for the concerning smarthost, let's go on and configure sendmail to use this smarthost. To do so, please edit the file /etc/mail/sendmail.mc. Find the line starting with MAILER_DEFINITIONS in this file and insert the lines before this line:
define(`SMART_HOST', <smarthost>)dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl FEATURE(`authinfo', `hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl
Where: <smarthost> is the fully qualified domain name (fqdn) of your smarthost Now use the M4 macro processor to translate the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file into a format sendmail understands (/etc/mail/sendmail.cf). This can be taken out by:
sudo bash -c "cd /etc/mail/ && m4 sendmail.mc > sendmail.cf"
Note: What to do if no authentication needed? In case no authentication is needed or necessary in your smarthost setup. This how-to can be used as
well. In that case, just simply skip the paragraph Configure authentication and only add the line define(`SMART_HOST', <smarthost>)dnl to the /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file. All the rest of the how-to applies as well.
Of course, the domains mylocaldomain.com and myotherlocaldomain.com need to be replaced by your actual local domains. Now, again this file /etc/mail/local-host-names needs to be translated into a format sendmail understands. Us the make command to do so, like shown below:
sudo bash -c "cd /etc/mail && make"
To make Scalix accept the changes, you should run the omsendin command. If you would do nothing, this command will result in this error: /opt/scalix/bin/omsendin: line 22: omcheckgc: command not found. To prevent this, edit the file /opt/scalix/bin/omsendin. Please replace:
OMCURRENT=`omcheckgc -l | head -1`
on line 22 by:
OMCURRENT=`/opt/scalix/bin/omcheckgc -l | head -1`
Afterwards the omsendin script works great. So now run the command:
sudo /opt/scalix/bin/omsendin
Next, check the configuration, by looking into the log file /var/log/mail.log. You can check it by using:
tail -400 /var/log/mail.log
If there's something wrong, have a look at the exact error message and fix the problem. If everything is all right, then you're done: congratulations!