Gmail, Fetchmail and Sendmail on UNIX/Linux

Linux Home Automation hosts a good article, Linux, Sendmail and Gmail.com on how to configure sendmail to work with Gmail. My config is a bit simpler than his (tested on Fedora Core 4, 6, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, CentOS 5, should work on most modern Linux distros).

My fetchmail run control file (.fetchmailrc):

 
 set syslog
 poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 and options no dns
     user 'abc@gmail.com'
     pass "WriteYourPasswordHere"
     ssl 

Modification to sendmail's mc file (/etc/mail/sendmail.mc):

 define(`SMART_HOST',`smtp.gmail.com')dnl
 define(`RELAY_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')dnl
 define(`ESMTP_MAILER_ARGS', `TCP $h 587')dnl
 define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `EXTERNAL GSSAPI DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN')dnl
 FEATURE(`authinfo',`hash /etc/mail/auth/client-info')dnl

To generate the authinfo file used above, refer to
Linux, Sendmail and Gmail.com. It's very simple and you can done it within 3 minutes.