From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 26 11:53:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 137E016A417 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:53:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31EB13C457 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:53:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mnslinky@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a73so998846pye for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:53:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=oX6SOr3H4BYLkoP2lWrAtKrhuShGT1GA1aac4eA3PbiBV4VI5U+EwDrl2OtxM0cyTEOycYfIzNNVHIsRM1ilfNkUiuRhb4+xJZeYmO4rcRwGl445aXLMGVlXXzypRKo+YU+oA2bVBE+uIclEXxjGXglTe4oLgBTSU4BugfLEudo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc:content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to:x-mailer; b=kUnq/A2vLrrQd1iMgjZcwiO1Yj6na0lSlzTA3a0q8wj/1rYnzZEBU90qtRO/NKqEIa4KXXgGo75QSLGP5xgT7srtDFuB+e4HKusXPdKvSz4wTCeG8yrVOU7Qn++dZxB/Y7mIl4ZkGP2xGj2UU2u42QCCIpUGrjpZpl/bOTvDgm8= Received: by 10.35.87.10 with SMTP id p10mr11272433pyl.1185450818561; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:53:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.14? ( [74.95.66.25]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id u2sm2519436pyb.2007.07.26.04.53.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:53:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46A86F40.1040208@lightray.org> References: <46A86F40.1040208@lightray.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <3342A9B9-056E-4C5A-852F-BAC2039E27CC@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Eric Crist Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:53:35 -0500 To: Dylan Smith X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:53:42 -0000 On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:54 AMJul 26, 2007, Dylan Smith wrote: > I am currently on the last stages of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2- > STABLE File and Network Application Server. One of my last tasks is > to simple forward all mail from root out through my isp's SMTP > (requires authentication) server and to an email account i have > elsewhere. That is to say i have no purpose for a mail server other > than to handle mail from things like periodic and to move that mail > elsewhere. > > Can this be easily accomplished? If so are there any guides/how- > to's? I have done a search around my usual BSD sites and books and > found nothing that is easily modified to my circumstances. > > Thanks, Dylan. > It can be done, but it's a PITA with Sendmail. Look into /usr/ports/ mail/ssmtp. We use it on our systems here where we need to simply get root's email off the box. Simple configuration file, works well. Eric Crist