Activating SMTP AUTH (PLAIN) through STARTTLS in sendmail (FreeBSD)
N.B. This expects a working sendmail installation with STARTTLS Install cyrus-sasl # install cyrus-sasl2 cd /usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2 make install clean echo "pwcheck_method: saslauthd" > /usr/local/lib/sasl2/Sendmail.conf # install cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd cd /usr/ports/security/cyrus-sasl2-saslauthd make install clean echo 'saslauthd_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf service saslauthd start Set sendmail make flags Set the following flags in /etc/make.conf (create if it doesn’t exist) SENDMAIL_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/sasl -DSASL SENDMAIL_LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib SENDMAIL_LDADD=-lsasl2 Recompile sendmail Did you have the source in /usr/src? Otherwise you will need to run the following command....