HowTo: Configure Sendmail with Gmail SMTP Server in FreeBSD

25Feb08

Yeah! Finally I was able to send and receive email with sendmail and dovecot implemented on my FreeBSD server. I choose gmail smtp server to act as my Outgoing Email Server. Here is how I did,

In the /etc/mail/yourhostname.mc file, add the following above the DAEMON_OPTIONS line.

define(`confAUTH_OPTIONS’, `A’)dnl
define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS’, `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN’)dnl
TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN’)dnl
FEATURE(`authinfo’, `Hash -o /etc/mail/authinfo’)dnl
define(`SMART_HOST’, `smtp.gmail.com’)dnl
define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS’, `TCP $h 587′)
define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS’, `TCP $h 587′)

Create or edit the /etc/authinfo file and with this codes.

AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com “U:smmsp” “I:gmailusername” “P:gmailpassword” “M:PLAIN”
AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 “U:smmsp” “I:gmailusername” “P:gmailpassword” “M:PLAIN”

Now, we can run this command in the /etc/mail directory.

touch local-host-names
makemap -r hash authinfo.db < authinfo
make all install restart

If the “make all install restart” command didn’t work, you can also run “make” alternatively.

References:

http://www.linuxha.com/

http://rajasuperman.blogspot.com/

http://www.openaddict.com/


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  1. 1 piju on June 9, 2008 said:

    i still dont know how to setup sendmail for my local networks

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  2. 2 manish on July 30, 2008 said:

    Good website …from kulhari group..manish kumar.

    Thanks

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  3. 3 Ricardo Marinho on September 15, 2008 said:

    Great work!!

    Reply
  4. 4 Jan on January 24, 2009 said:

    Nice manual but I have a problem with my sendmail.
    Error massage is:

    Starting: sendmail554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 59: unknown configuration line ”
    ”
    554 5.0.0 /etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 85: unknown configuration line ”
    ”
    Warning: Option: AuthMechanisms requires SASL support (-DSASL)
    Warning: Option: AuthOptions requires SASL support (-DSASL)
    sendmail-clientmqueue.

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  5. 5 Kevin on November 14, 2009 said:

    Thank you very much for this. I didn’t have luck getting sendmail to work with my Uverse SMTP, but this worked great to get my mail sending via Gmail.

    Reply

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