Re: sendmail AUTH

Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> writes:

Wolfgang Agnes <wagnes@jemoni.to> wrote:

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I suggest we take this thread to comp.mail.sendmail.
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Here's what I see when I say ``HELP'' to my sendmail:
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214-2.0.0 This is sendmail version 8.18.1
214-2.0.0 Topics:
214-2.0.0       HELO    EHLO    MAIL    RCPT    DATA
214-2.0.0       RSET    NOOP    QUIT    HELP    VRFY
214-2.0.0       EXPN    VERB    ETRN    DSN     AUTH
214-2.0.0       STARTTLS
214-2.0.0 For more info use "HELP <topic>".
214-2.0.0 To report bugs in the implementation see
214-2.0.0       http://www.sendmail.org/email-addresses.html
214-2.0.0 For local information send email to Postmaster at your site.
214 2.0.0 End of HELP info
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It shows AUTH.  But it doesn't show anything else such as PLAIN or
CRAM-MD5.  What does that mean?  What kind of AUTH support do I have at
the moment?
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I have no cyrus packages installed on this FreeBSD.  If AUTH suffices to
me, then I wouldn't install anything else.
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# pkg info | grep cyrus
#
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# uname -a
FreeBSD my.host.name 14.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p5 GENERIC
amd64

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Do you plan to use dovecot (IMAP)?
YES => AFAIK postfix offers better dovecot integration than sendmail.

(Thanks!)  Such as what?

So far I'm not planning on using IMAP.  This is just for personal mail
and I prefer the whole thing to be local, so POP3 should be enough to
bring my mail to my personal computer and then I can manage it here.

And I also don't want to plan to run Postfix.  I am actually fond of
qmail, but I decided to run the legend once again to (this time) really
learn how it works and celebrate what a great software it has always
been.