Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:31:34 +0200 From: Ernst Terhardt <terhardt@ei.tum.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sendmail configuration Message-ID: <3B488AE6.A7274A75@ei.tum.de>
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Hello, dear e-mail-sendmail Wizards. I would love to be able to send a problem report using send-pr, HOWEVER, how do I get send-pr working on my just-installed FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE???? To my understanding, send-pr does require nothing else than that sendmail is configured for sending messages to an SMTP mail server. After many hours of reading innumerable text- and script-files and of fiddling around with /etc/freebsd.mc, /etc/aliases, /etc/local-host-names, /etc/virtusertable, /etc/mailertable, /etc/etcetcetcetc ... I have not made any progress and I feel somewhat fooled (By the way, I had the same experience when I was using Linux, and I 'solved' the problem by entering X and netscape). I am a kind of (single-) 'standard' user, i.e., I am using a single PC at home and I have a working TCP-IP connection to an ISP plus one mail-server name for incoming mail and one for outgoing mail. My problem merely is where and how to put the latter two mail-server names, and (for the time being) I wish to let alone the thousands of details and of m4-dependent configuration methods used by sendmail. While this is straightforward and simple when using netscape and MS internet explorer, with sendmail it turns out to be a black art which I seem to be incapable of. I suspect that this discrepancy could be made disappearing by a kind of documentation that lets one see the wood instead of too many trees (sendmail seems to be a contra-masterpiece in this respect!) - and, in particular, I suspect that the problem for a majority of 'naive' users like myself can be resolved by help of one (!!!) fairly simple shell script or Makefile that puts those mail-server names into the right places of the vast sendmail-forest and creates the proper local-host-names-virtusertable-mailertable-etc-etc files, not to mention sendmail.cf. FreeBSDs /etc/mail/Makefile is a highly appreciable approach to that, but in its present form it is not sufficient for stupid people like me. Besides sending problem reports by send-pr I also wish to get access to my incoming-mail server on a non-X, non-netscape basis, and I understand that this requires a POP daemon being installed, plus one of those e-mail clients available in the ports collection. My question here is: Can this (at least on a basic level) simply be accomplished with 'popper' and 'mail' ? Thank you for your patience. Ernst Terhardt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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