Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:17:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail / fetchmail config under 3.3?!? Looking for pointers Message-ID: <19990926221745.A4253@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMOEONCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> References: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMOEONCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
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On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Francis J. Bruening wrote: > Hi, > > Just installed 3.3 last weekend, and have been chipping > away at getting things configured just so. I'm new to FBSD, > and am not a unix guru, so sorry if this questions seems somewhat > pedantic. > > 1) WRT mail: I have a LAN connection to an ISP (@home) accessable > through POP3, sending using SMTP. I want to > be able to send / recieve e-mail. digging around it seems the > easiest way to do that is to use fetchmail / sendmail. (Someone > please let me know if there is a better way) I plan on using Mutt > as my mail client. > > I installed fetchmail (used the port, very slick! I'm still impressed > with how well ports work). Now I try to debug fetchmail, and I get > the following messages: > > ... lots of "octet" messages about each file in my POP3 mailbox > ... > fetchmail> SMTP connect to localhost failed > fetchmail> SMTP transaction error while fetching > fetchmail> error 10?!? (if I remember correctly) > Looks like you've got localhost set up as your SMTP server. Try running fetchmailconf which should have been installed with the port. It's a GUI front-end for generating ~/.fetchmailrc. FWIW, I'm running the same setup; sendmail, fetchmail, and mutt (with procmail thrown in for good measure). > Do I have sendmail configured incorrectly? I started to dig through the > doc(s) on sendmail, and am horrifed (OK, not really) at the complexity > of it. I never configured sendmail when I installed, do I need to do > so now? If so, is there something like sendmailconf? > > Can someone point me to a quick and easy way to configure it to meet my > humble needs (use my system as a workstation, without lots of fancy > options for SPAM filtering etc?) I just need to connect to my ISP mailbox > using POP3, and send mail through my ISP mailer... > > Any help is much appreciated. Once I get mail working, I won't need to > boot back into Windows to use mail.. > > thanks greatly! > > Regards, > > Francis > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- STATE-OF-THE-ART: Any computer you can't afford. OBSOLETE: Any computer you own. ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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