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Has anyone successfully setup sendmail to use gmail or google apps as the relay?
I have found several articles on the web from other users, but none are using Amahi so i'm not sure how much applies or doesn't apply. needless to say i've tried a bunch of things but have not been able to send out email thru gallery2. All i'm looking to do is send out emails from gallery2, drupal, etc. for notifications or password resets. i don't want to system to receive emails.
here is a snippet from the maillog.
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Sep 20 23:53:54 homedomain sendmail[8693]: starting daemon (8.14.3): SMTP+queueing@01:00:00
Sep 20 23:53:54 homedomain sm-msp-queue[8702]: starting daemon (8.14.3): queueing@01:00:00
Sep 20 23:54:03 homedomain sendmail[8708]: n8L3s3Z4008708: from=root, size=243, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200909210354.n8L3s3Z4008708@localhost.localdomain>, relay=root@localhost
Sep 20 23:54:03 homedomain sendmail[8708]: STARTTLS=client, relay=[127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=FAIL, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256
Sep 20 23:54:03 homedomain sendmail[8709]: STARTTLS=server, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=NO, cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits=256/256
Sep 20 23:54:03 homedomain sendmail[8709]: n8L3s3G3008709: from=<root@localhost.localdomain>, size=503, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200909210354.n8L3s3Z4008708@localhost.localdomain>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
Sep 20 23:54:03 homedomain sendmail[8708]: n8L3s3Z4008708: to=recipient@gmail.com, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30243, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (n8L3s3G3008709 Message accepted for delivery)
Sep 20 23:54:04 homedomain sendmail[8711]: STARTTLS=client, relay=smtp.gmail.com, version=TLSv1/SSLv3, verify=OK, cipher=RC4-MD5, bits=128/128
Sep 20 23:54:04 homedomain sendmail[8711]: AUTH=client, relay=smtp.gmail.com [publicip], authinfo failed
Sep 20 23:54:04 homedomain sendmail[8711]: n8L3s3G3008709: to=<recipient@gmail.com>, ctladdr=<root@localhost.localdomain> (0/0), delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=120503, relay=smtp.gmail.com [publicip], dsn=5.0.0, stat=Service unavailable
Sep 20 23:54:04 homedomain sendmail[8711]: n8L3s3G3008709: n8L3s4G2008711: DSN: Service unavailable
Sep 20 23:54:04 homedomain sendmail[8711]: n8L3s4G2008711: to=<root@localhost.localdomain>, delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=31820, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
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i've never tried to configure sendmail before so i'm not exactly sure what i'm doing. it seems like every article i read is slightly different and none have worked for me so far. If someone has successfully configured this, or if this has already been posted here somewhere, could you point me in the right direction.

thanks.

It looks like you're making progress. I can tell from the log that the message is getting to Gmail but Gmail is rejecting it. What I can't tell from the log is why. The bounce message that came back (to root's mailbox) might have more details.

AUTH=client, relay=smtp.gmail.com [publicip], authinfo failed

basically authentication failed. You _must_ authenticate with your uid & password to send with/through Googles SMTP (and use TLS, configure correct ports etc.). And even then they might reject it since your server is asking the Google server to relay for it, which it probably won't permit.

bigfoot65 is developing a mailer (and I am helping a tad) around postfix, courier, and squirrelmail:

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Amahi_Mail_System

I suspect this setup will support what you are doing. Perhaps you would like to try out the app as it is now, and then set it up to work with GMAIL.

I was reading a magazine and came across this program: Axigen.
Free for up to 5 users, if you need more a license will cost you tho ($99/year for 10 users including push e-mail to most mobile phones, the free edition doesn't have push). However it seems to be a drop-in replacement for Exchange and is quite attractively priced compared to MS Exchange, especially for businesses ($275/year for up to 500 users depending on chosen extras). It looks quite nice and intuitive which is more than I can say for a few other "Exchange replacement" packages I tried.

I have used it before. It's not nice. Was gonna try to package it, but not sure. The download size may be a problem.