From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Apr 13 11:01:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18217 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 11:01:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18045 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 17:59:46 GMT (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA20988; Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:59:26 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980414035922.11771@welearn.com.au> Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 03:59:23 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: neal.tillery@cp.novartis.com Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POP vs. Sendmail References: <199804131734.TAA21723@mta3.is.chbs> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <199804131734.TAA21723@mta3.is.chbs>; from neal.tillery@cp.novartis.com on Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 07:34:04PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 07:34:04PM +0200, neal.tillery@cp.novartis.com wrote: > Well I finally configured PPP to work on my home computer this weekend > (I've had it running on my friends network for about a week now). I > then sat then and wondered what to do next. Mail! The problem is after > reading the book I'm not sure which MTA I should use. Should I take the > time to configure Sendmail to receive my mail form my ISP, or just > install POP to retrieve mail instead. Right now I only have one PC, but > I plan to add 2 more in the next 3 months and I would like to have them > use the same PPP link to the Internet and receive mail also. So my > question is for those who have configured mail already. Should I set of > POP now, or go with the grueling configuration of Sendmail have it up > and ready when I add computers to my network? If I use Sendmail, what > is the best way to do it; load it at boot time or call it from > ppp.linkup? When you say the book, do you mean the second edition of The Complete FreeBSD? I set up sendmail from that book and it was really easy, hardly anything needed to be done to get sendmail itself working. It's the networking that it relies on that's the brain buster. Don't let sendmail spook stories get to you. People like you and me can run it almost out of the box. It's when you start trying to change too many things that it requires someone who really knows what they're doing. But it sounds like you've got a POP account and need to get mail from there? I think the only way to get POP mail is with POP. That's also covered, and recent versions of my MUA (mutt) are supposed to do POP as well but I haven't tried it. Of course, I'm a newbie so I could be totally wrong :-) but I do know a lot of these things sounded much harder than they really were. -- Regards, -*Sue*- find / -name "*.conf" |more To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message