Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 19:43:31 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Ernst Terhardt <terhardt@ei.tum.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail configuration Message-ID: <20010708194331.A61241@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3B488AE6.A7274A75@ei.tum.de>; from terhardt@ei.tum.de on Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:31:34PM %2B0200 References: <3B488AE6.A7274A75@ei.tum.de>
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From: Ernst Terhardt <terhardt@ei.tum.de> Subject: sendmail configuration Date: Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 06:31:34PM +0200 > Hello, dear e-mail-sendmail Wizards. > I would love to be able to send a problem report using send-pr, > HOWEVER, > > how do I get send-pr working on my just-installed FreeBSD > 4.3-RELEASE???? > > To my understanding, send-pr does require nothing else than that > sendmail is configured for sending messages to an SMTP mail server. Yup. All you have to do is make sure that sendmail can send mail to your provider's mail exchanger. This involves two things: a) To make sure that Sendmail does not try to forward mail by itself. Since you do mention an ISP below, you should not try to directly send mail messages. b) To make sure that outgoing mail from your account is 'masqueraded' to appear as coming from a *real* address. This involves setting up either FEATURE(`masquerade_envelope') in your sendmail, or setting up FEATURE(`genericstable'). > I am a kind of (single-) 'standard' user, i.e., I am using a single > PC at home and I have a working TCP-IP connection to an ISP plus one > mail-server name for incoming mail and one for outgoing mail. To send and receive mail messages are two separate things. To send messages, you need to configure Sendmail or some other MTA (qmail and Postfix are two popular alternatives). To receive mail, you can either have your mail user agent (Mutt, Pine, Netscape, whatever) pop the mail from your provider's POP server into some local folder, or you can install fetchmail and have it pop the messages from your provider and deliver them to your local Sendmail (the one you configured in the previous step). > FreeBSDs /etc/mail/Makefile is a highly appreciable approach to > that, but in its present form it is not sufficient for stupid people > like me. It's not you that is stupid. It's just that the FreeBSD approach of such things is to actually learn how things work, and build the puzzle yourself. Daunting as this might seem to be at first, it can be loads of fun in the long run :-) > Besides sending problem reports by send-pr I also wish to get access > to my incoming-mail server on a non-X, non-netscape basis, and I > understand that this requires a POP daemon being installed, plus one > of those e-mail clients available in the ports collection. The parts that you need, as I said above are a) A `mail-transfer agent' (MTA), i.e. a program that knows how to deliver mail to local users' mailboxes, and forward mail to other mail servers. b) A `mail user agent' (MUA), i.e. a program that will let you read the local mail, and send mail through the installed mail transfer agent. Sendmail is an MTA. Qmail, Postfix or even Exim, are a few other popular MTA's. As for MUA's... You can find lots of them in /usr/ports/mail with the most popular ones being Mutt, Pine, elm, exmh, etc. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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