Hi,<\/p>\n
My internet service provider (ISP, Eniig) has announced that they will no longer provide a SMTP relay host (outgoing Simple Mail Transfer Protocol relay), and on top of that they earlier they stated that they will not setup reverse DNS on my fixed IP – so with these two (really bad) decisions in mind, I had to come up with a solution.<\/p>\n
By the way – Eniigs reason for not providing SMTP relay servides anymore is that they apparently cannot manage to have such a server in production anymore because of SPAM anti measures etc. Really? An ISP not having the resources and knowledge to run a SMTP server in production anymore? Really!?!?!<\/p>\n
Anyway – Eniig suggested using\u00a0https:\/\/smtp.dk\/<\/a> and even provides a free (almost unlimited) access until end of May 2018, so although there is a lot of cheaper alternatives out there – why not? Only problem is that it requires SMTP to the submit port (587) and authentication. And it is a requirement for me to continue to use my FreeBSD\/Sendmail box, which is providing a lot of services – including some rarely used SMTP-services – for family and friends. This is actually a non-profit\/free setup – so it is a pita that Eniig actually are putting extra costs into this, without reducing the cost for the Internet connection. Shame on them!!!<\/p>\n Actually, it was not that big of a hassle to configure Sendmail for this purpose – and I’m also doing SMTP authentication, SpamAssassin filtering, procmail\u00a0 and a lot of other stuff in my Sendmail :-).<\/p>\n This is what I had to do:<\/p>\n 1. …replacing values in < > with you accounts values from smtp.dk 2. 3. Note: You should change this for the sendmail queue runner process, not a SMTP submit service etc.<\/p>\n 4. 5. Also: remember to correct your SPF and similar setups on your domains according to smtp.dk\/mysmtp.eu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hi, My internet service provider (ISP, Eniig) has announced that they will no longer provide a SMTP relay host (outgoing Simple Mail Transfer Protocol relay), and on top of that they earlier they stated that they will not setup reverse DNS on my fixed IP – so with these two (really bad) decisions in mind, … <\/p>\n
\nFor non-Danish speakers wanting to join, smtp.dk also runs an international version of their service on\u00a0https:\/\/mysmtp.eu\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nCreate \/etc\/mail\/authinfo with one line (terminate it with a line break):<\/p>\nAuthInfo:smtp.dk \"U:root\" \"I:<smtp.dk login name>\" \"P:<smtp.dk password>\" \"M:LOGIN PLAIN\"<\/pre>\n
\nI feel most secure by making this file rw for root only<\/p>\n
\nRun makemap of this file to create a authinfo.db-file<\/p>\nmakemap hash authinfo < authinfo<\/pre>\n
\nCorrect your sendmail.mc-file (whatever it is called on your system). Add these lines:<\/p>\ndefine(`SMART_HOST',`[smtp.dk]')dnl\ndefine(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')dnl\nFEATURE(`authinfo',`hash \/etc\/mail\/authinfo')dnl<\/pre>\n
\nCompile your sendmail.mc file into a sendmail.cf file. This is easily done on FreeBSD \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\nmake cf<\/pre>\n
\nRestart sendmail. Again – this is easy on FreeBSD<\/p>\nmake restart<\/pre>\n