From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 2 22:42:45 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C1316A4CE for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:42:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.cms-stl.com (smtp.cms-stl.com [192.94.149.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4237043D1D for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:42:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from madden@cmsrtp.com) Message-ID: <41D878DE.6070303@cmsrtp.com> Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:42:38 -0600 From: Michael Madden User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Anish Mistry References: <20050102202051.GA7603@cmsrtp.com> <20050102203631.GA3765@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> <1104699579.63517.14.camel@owl2> <200501021648.17318.mistry.7@osu.edu> In-Reply-To: <200501021648.17318.mistry.7@osu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMS-Received: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:42:42 -0600, [192.168.2.2] (port=36779 helo=[192.168.2.2]) X-CMS-Authenticated-User: madden X-CMS-Received: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:42:43 -0600, [192.168.2.2] (port=36779 helo=[192.168.2.2]) X-CMS-Archived: smtp.cms-stl.com X-CMS-Scanned: Sophos Anti-Virus X-CMS-Received: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 16:42:43 -0600, localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:52730 helo=lxmail.cms-stl.com) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: madden@cmsrtp.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on smtp.cms-stl.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false cc: Sergei Gnezdov cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 22:42:45 -0000 >>Where do I go to learn about sendmail configuration? > > Pick up the O'Reilly "Bat Book" Sendmail book. The sendmail.org site is > also a very good resource as well as IRC on freenode. > >>Any HOWTO instructions? >>Where do I send newbie questions to? Does anyone know of a good tutorial/howto for configuring sendmail on FreeBSD. My two books ('Absolute BSD' and 'The Complete FreeBSD') make little mention of sendmail configuration and focus on setting up postfix. The FreeBSD Handbook seems incomplete and glosses over details: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html 1.) How do I edit /etc/rc.conf to start sendmail at boot. 2.) Most of the configurations files seem pretty normal, but sendmail.cf seems quite obtuse. I guess I'm looking for a document that would walk a newbie through setting up sendmail on FreeBSD without being too arcane or not detailed enough. My experience with some of the other Oreilly books leads me to believe they're pretty generic; I doubt I'd find information on how to setup sendmail for FreeBSD. Thanks again, Mike