Configure OpenBSD Sendmail with SASL

Contributed by jason on 2011-02-25 from the dont-get-SASL-with-me dept.

We recently uncovered a useful tutorial for setting up SASL with OpenBSD's Sendmail:

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One of the greatest challenges in migrating my server from a managed FreeBSD server to the new OpenBSD server was learning how to implement support for SASL on SMTP connections. This seems like something so elementary in a mail server that it should be really simple. Unfortunately, simply installing the cyrus-sasl package doesn�t handle the integration with sendmail for you nor is there any really good documentation online. I was particularly disappointed that OpenBSD�s documentation was completely silent on how to do it.
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Read the full story over at Mark Solocinski's blog.

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By Otto Moerbeek (otto) otto@drijf.net on 2011-02-25 18:57 http://www.drijf.net

The symlink to the .so file is not needed. It can even be even harmful if you install a new version of cyrus-sasl.
By Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot) god@hell.org on 2011-02-25 23:59 http://www.ubuntu.com/

"This is made much simpler on FreeBSD as there is a sendmail-sasl port that you can build. Why OpenBSD doesn�t do something similar or simply compile the support into their binaries is beyond me."

One reason why OpenBSD does not compile support in the sendmail binary is that because cyrus-sasl2 is an external package and sendmail is part of the base system.

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