Install gMail as SMTP Relay Host for SendMail

[ednunnemaker]

how do i undo the changes made with this write up? its not working and i think its due to the exchange server at the customers site, i can send email to myself al day long but a soon as i try to send it to them it never reaches the destination, i think they are blocking it somehow, they claim they don't even see the message attempt to be delivered, thought maybe i'll go back to square one and try the normal route. thank you,

[dad311]

Nice write-up. Just thought I would note that I needed to remove/delete my sendmail.cf file before doing the make command. The make command would run, but not update the sendmail.cf file.

[tenortim]

I believe the main problem with these instructions is the use of the echo command. The echo command stips double-quotes from whatever is echo'd so that client-info file doesn't contain the double-quotes. To fix this problem, when you edit client-info to change user-id and password, reinsert the double-quotes. This fixed it for me.

Undrhil

Bingo! You hit the nail on the head. The auth-info syntax requires the username, password etc to be surrounded by double-quotes, but if you follow the directions in the original article, the shell is going to wind up stripping them. Edit the auth-info file, make sure there are double-quotes around each part i.e.
"U:smmsp" "I:user_id" "P:password" "M:PLAIN"
not
U:smmsp I:user_id P:password M:PLAIN

Rerun the makemap and you should be in business.

[wardmundy]

I believe this is explained in the file itself. You had to open it to insert your credentials.

[cjkeeme]

I am interested in using this with my Google Apps email. This way the received email is from my domain instead of @gmail.

Google Apps uses the same smtp.gmail.com on port 587. My guess is it won't be difficult to accomplish, but I don't know where to begin.

Any help figuring this out is greatly appreciated.

[discodave1977]

I use Bell Sympatico at home and this fix works like a charm for me. ty ty ty!

[badwolf]

what should i set for

127.0.0.1 pbx.dyndns.org pbx.local pbx localhost.localdomain localhost

And then make line 6 of /etc/asterisk/vm_general.inc look like the following:

serveremail=voicemail@pbx.dyndns.org

Now issue the following two commands to make the changes take effect:

service network restart
amportal restart
The command “setup-mail” can be used from the Linux prompt to set the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN)



also i tried the instructions but nothing happens for make.
thanks

[wnpaul]

I am interested in using this with my Google Apps email. This way the received email is from my domain instead of @gmail.

Google Apps uses the same smtp.gmail.com on port 587. My guess is it won't be difficult to accomplish, but I don't know where to begin.

Any help figuring this out is greatly appreciated.

Where Ward's instructions say "your gmail username without @gmail.com" you need to put your complete Google Apps email address (in other words with @yourdomain). That is the only difference in the SMTP instructions provided by Google for Gmail and GApps accounts, respectively.

[jehowe]

Just a comment on an old thread. Maybe I'm just not very smart, but I lost an hour trying to figure out that any changes made to the client-info file don't just require a sendmail reload, but also need to be followed up with the command:

makemap -r hash client-info.db < client-info

Doh! Spamhaus just recently banned my Comcast IP range (which yahoo uses), with no recourse, sending me running to this thread. Thanks Ward for the gmail setup.

[cb122]

I have followed this to the T as well and I get the following in my maillog

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Jan 13 21:17:01 pbx sendmail[2061]: n0E1VJaN032521: to=<xxx@xxx.com>, delay=00:45:41, xdelay=00:28:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=313780, relay=alt1.aspmx.l.google.com. [xx.xx.xxx.114], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.



Any Pointers?



Thanks