Fedora sendmail auth

[Kevin J. Cummings]

Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I have some crappy laptop running windoze and I want to connect to my 
> home server to send and receive my mail. I got the dovecot/imap side 
> working but I need to know what to do to be allowed to use my server at 
> home which runs sendmail as my SMTP server. Is there a gentle howto 
> that's uptodate WRT F~10? Can I just auth by password or do I really 
> need to go the whole certificate magilla? What packages are needed?

If you add the laptop to your /etc/mail/access file (configure as 
RELAY), you should be able to use your sendmail directly (port 25).  Or, 
you could configure sendmail to use MSA on port 587 with login 
credentials.  Finally, you could enable SSL (smtps) on port 485, but 
ISTR that it requires certificates be set up.  I created a dummy 
self-signed certificate on my server machine, and I use it for each 
client on my local network which wishes to send email through my server.
Whether its Windows or Linux, I use the same setup in Thunderbird.

> TIA

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