I've had a couple of private replies, so answering this on the thread. "Why am I doing this"? Because I have 2 Fedora servers and a few services occasionally send email. Those forwards are going to my gmail address. gmail is not allowing them through most of the time as it looks like relay attempts (a la spam approach). I am not running my own email processing with it. Why sendmail vs [other product]? Only because sendmail was already configured and running with default distro, and running flawlessly for about 15 years. This problem only occurred because of recent switch of ISPs (for speed). Previous awesome ISP must have configured this behind the scenes. Is it really worth the effort to change to something else (2 people's "any advice appreciated" is "switch to postfix") that is not installed and working? And if so, is the recipe to accomplish what my real goal is readily available? That's what really matters... not which product I use. On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Jeff Jensen <jjensen at apache.org> wrote: > Anyone configured Sendmail on their server to point to CenturyLink's SMTP > relay server? I'm on Fedora if that matters: > Linux version 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586 ( > mockbuild at x86-05.phx2.fedoraproject.org) (gcc version 4.4.1 20090725 (Red > Hat 4.4.1-2) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 06:51:26 UTC 2010 > > This is what I'm trying to do [0]. I'm a n00b at Sendmail, so any advice > is appreciated. > > I found this page when looking for the CL smtp server info [1], but not > sure if that's correct to use. > > I've been searching the CL forums and general googling. I've found a > couple of recipes, e.g. [2], [3], and [4]. > I'm a bit confused because they differ a little, the permutations I've > tried don't work, and I'm not sure if it would work even if I had the > correct config because I wonder what the user id & pw is - do I need to > contact them for a special one, or is it the same as my DSL one? > > So initial questions are: > 1. Any general advice? > 2. The user id & pw - are they different or same per above? I noticed CL > has an email facility which I don't use/don't have u&pw for; my guess is I > need to call (gasp) them to get that. > 3. Anyone have a simpler recipe to share (or sample configs they've done > that works)?! > > [0] http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10336 > > [1] http://www.qwest.net/help/roaming.html#config > > [2] > http://www.ozzu.com/unix-linux-forum/how-setup-relay-host-sendmail-t29690.html > [3] http://cri.ch/linux/docs/sk0009.html > [4] > http://serverfault.com/questions/265021/make-gmail-auth-smtp-smart-relay-by-tweaking-sendmail-cf-not-mc > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20120617/3eecf053/attachment.html>