sendmail ! where to put my password

[Adel ESSAFI]

2008/10/6 Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com>

> Adel ESSAFI wrote:
> > Hi list
> > I send this mail after I have find a difficulty to find how to send
> > mails using sendmail.
> > I have configured sendmail as shown in the web, but, I receive message
> > error from mùy smtp server (554) saying that the authentication is
> failed.
> >
> > This is not suprising since in my configuration files, I have not found
> > where to put the password my email.
> >
> > Can you help about this please.
>
> >
>
> Why do you need a password?  Are you using a SMART_HOST configuration,
> routing your outgoing mail through your provider's SMTP server?


Yes, I use my ISP smtp, but it require however a password.
Thanks for your reply. I will try and give a feed back for the list
Regrads


>
>
> If so, in sendmail.mc
>
> define(`SMART_HOST', `the.provider.server.name')dnl
> define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')dnl
> define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')
> FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/authinfo')dnl
>
> in the file /etc/mail/accessinfo
>
> AuthInfo:the.provider.server.name:587 "U:your.user.name"
> "P:your.password" M:CRAM-MD5
>
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