Yeah! Finally I’m able to send and receive email with sendmail and dovecot implemented on my Linux server today. 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.db’)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/mail/authinfo file and with this codes.
AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com “U:root” “I:gmailusername” “P:gmailpassword” “M:PLAIN”
AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com:587 “U:root” “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
service sendmail restart
If the “make all install restart” command didn’t work, you can also run “make” alternatively.
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