Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:46:21 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it> To: Andreas Ntaflos <root@granat.chello.at> Cc: Francesco Casadei <fcasadei@inwind.it>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed using a mail user agent (eg mutt) with pop3 services (eg gmx)? Message-ID: <20010106114621.A2673@junior.kasby> In-Reply-To: <20010105220951.A90940@granat.chello.at>; from root@granat.chello.at on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:09:51PM %2B0000 References: <3A55DDA4.3CB13AA8@gmx.net> <20010105215423.A1153@junior.kasby> <20010105220951.A90940@granat.chello.at>
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On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:09:51PM +0000, Andreas Ntaflos wrote:
> wow, thanks very much. that's really comprehensive. fetchmail did the trick for getting the mail from the server, very good. but somehow i have to find out how to configure sendmail. you use serialmail for sending mail, did i get this right?
>
> is it better or simpler than sendmail?
>
> one problem with sending mail is, that i am a simple user with an ISP account, and my hostname is not a really qualified domainname, which sendmail seems to have problems with...
>
> but it's abit easier, since i am on cable modem, so no dial up or pppd problems.
>
> dont know, have to figure this out.
>
> thanks a lot,
> regards
> Andreas Ntaflos
>
[snip]
> end of the original message
I don't like sendmail, it's too difficult to set up for a dialup system. I've
replaced it with Qmail. Initially I used Qmail to send mail directly to the
destination's SMTP server, but after few successfully sent messages I got
blocked by DUL (doh!). Being a dialup user I have to use my ISP's mail
server as a relay to send mail. To achieve this I use Qmail to deliver
outgoing mail in a maildir folder (a sort of queue) and then I use
maildirsmtp to send messages to my ISP's mail server for delivery. You can
find maildirsmtp in the package serialmail-0.75 from the Ports.
If you send mail to your ISP's SMTP server you are not required to specify a
fully qualified hostname (at least it is true for all my ISPs). Sometimes I
have a hostname; in this case calling the script mail-out executes:
maildirsmtp /var/qmail/alias/pppdir alias-ppp- \
`cat /var/run/smtpserver` $HOST_NAME
Sometimes I don't have a hostname (only a dynamic IP), then I executes
maildirsmtp /var/qmail/alias/pppdir alias-ppp- \
`cat /var/run/smtpserver` `cat /var/run/local_ip`
The SMTP server specified in /var/run/smtpserver is the relay host I have to
use to send mail to remote addresses. This host accept mail from me by
checking my IP address.
Francesco Casadei
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