How to configure your MTA [Was: [PATCH] fix some doc typos and grammar]

["Uwe Kleine-König" <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>]

Hello,

Jakub Narebski wrote:
> > This makes git-send-email work directly, and avoids the gmail web MUA.
> 
> It is fairly easy to do the same with sendmail (which is default MTA
> for many Linux distributions). I have googled the answer thanks to
> some tips on #git channel. You have to change /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
> (or the file where SMART_HOST is commented out), add your credentials
> to /etc/mail/authinfo, then compile changes using "make -C /etc/mail"
> (all of it as root, I think).
> 
> Your credential should have the form (in /etc/mail/authinfo)
> 
>   AuthInfo:smtp.gmail.com "U:username@gmail.com" "P:password" "M:PLAIN"
>   AuthInfo: "U:username@gmail.com" "P:password" "M:PLAIN"
I'd prefer a MTA that is able to do this on a per-user basis.  My wish
is something like procmail, but for sending.  Some time ago I searched
for such an MTA, but unsuccessful.  Does anyone know such a server?

Best regards
Uwe

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Uwe Kleine-König

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