From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Jul 31 06:33:29 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BFE89AE524; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 06:33:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) Received: from dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu (dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu [18.9.25.15]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AD9F68AF; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 06:33:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kaduk@mit.edu) X-AuditID: 1209190f-f79716d000002ea2-38-55bb16b0fae0 Received: from mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu ( [18.7.62.39]) (using TLS with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by dmz-mailsec-scanner-4.mit.edu (Symantec Messaging Gateway) with SMTP id 8D.EF.11938.0B61BB55; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:33:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by mailhub-auth-4.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.9.2) with ESMTP id t6V6XJpb031798; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:33:19 -0400 Received: from multics.mit.edu (system-low-sipb.mit.edu [18.187.2.37]) (authenticated bits=56) (User authenticated as kaduk@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) by outgoing.mit.edu (8.13.8/8.12.4) with ESMTP id t6V6XFWT003650 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:33:18 -0400 Received: (from kaduk@localhost) by multics.mit.edu (8.12.9.20060308) id t6V6XFCM020861; Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:33:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:33:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk X-X-Sender: kaduk@multics.mit.edu To: Anton Shterenlikht cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mention authenticated SMTP from ports in Sec 28.9 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (GSO 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Brightmail-Tracker: H4sIAAAAAAAAA+NgFvrDIsWRmVeSWpSXmKPExsUixG6nrrtBbHeowYGDQhanznSxWrz8uonF 4u7CJAdmj/7FM1k8ZnyazxLAFMVlk5Kak1mWWqRvl8CVseD/NpaCz1wV8350szUwfuLoYuTk kBAwkTi2rYUJwhaTuHBvPVsXIxeHkMBiJonTP2aygiSEBDYySvzdlgSROMQk0fzkBROE08Ao 8ejDD3aQKhYBbYlLO+8ygthsAmoSj/c2s0KMVZTYfGoSM4gtIqAp8fRyK1gNs4CVxMfrD8Di wgJ2Es1fzgOt5uDgFAiU6G2rBQnzCjhKXNqzmB3iiACJrVdOgY0UFdCRWL1/CgtEjaDEyZlP WCBGakksn76NZQKj0CwkqVlIUgsYmVYxyqbkVunmJmbmFKcm6xYnJ+blpRbpmujlZpbopaaU bmIEBTKnJP8Oxm8HlQ4xCnAwKvHwZizdFSrEmlhWXJl7iFGSg0lJlLeEaXeoEF9SfkplRmJx RnxRaU5q8SFGCQ5mJRFet3dA5bwpiZVVqUX5MClpDhYlcd5NP/hChATSE0tSs1NTC1KLYLIy HBxKErybRIGGChalpqdWpGXmlCCkmTg4QYbzAA0/AFLDW1yQmFucmQ6RP8WoKCXOOwEkIQCS yCjNg+uFJZpXjOJArwjzioNU8QCTFFz3K6DBTECD+9p3gAwuSURISTUwOovem3UjOPJYNvvW 59KWLYnR2U2PF8p9P7NoU33exAunwsqM+Y+cD3n2MsbvwqxJTAuX3TAq2JS4yqjtv4FGoWFP Xs3T9H/CKcGHqm53pE1s4mSdG93u9+HCRXHvSZfvXb2bEZtxtMFMf+ayXlkD9k9te15f//Xu qMq58Dz2VwsP7F17NnzWdSWW4oxEQy3mouJEAMezvfcPAwAA X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 06:33:29 -0000 On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've been using smtp auth, as per handbook > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-Auth.html > for years. > > Lately I'm trying to move to binary updates on amd64, > which means not rebuilding parts of the world by hand. > > So I installed mail/sendmail package which is > built with authentication support (sendmail+tls+sasl2-8.15.1). > I followed the config instructions at the end of the install > message and things seem to work fine. > > I think it's worth mentioning, at the very beginning of > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-Auth.html > that using sendmail from ports is a convenient alternative to > these instructions. That's probably a good idea. It seems likely that there was not a sendmail port that defaulted to having authentication support at the time this section was written, not to mention being present in a usable package system. > Are there any downsides to using sendmail from ports > vs the OS sendmail? I think the only issues are generic ones to having a software installed in both the base system and from ports, involving making sure everything is using the version from ports, and what happens during early startup before /usr/local is ready. I don't expect it to be particularly onerous for the case of sendmail. -Ben