From: ldo@nz.invalid

On Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:03:09 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:

> I know from previous experience, that I should have STARTTLS
> enabled, because sendmail does not allow passwords to go on plain
> text TCP connections.

Maybe not what you want to hear, but perhaps this is a good time to
give up on Sendmail, and switch to a more rationally-designed MTA.

The Debian default MTA is Exim, but speaking personally I have little
to no experience with that myself; my go-to MTA has mostly been
Postfix.

Comparing Sendmail and Postfix, with Sendmail I was never quite sure
of what I was doing; even after I succeeded in configuring it to do
something, I had little confidence that I could repeat the feat again.
With Postfix, all the configuration options made some kind of sense
(explained in detail in the docs), so after having done something, I
had good confidence that I could perform the same configuration task
again.

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