From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 27 04:32:16 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 7CD2A16A418 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:32:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noeldude@gmail.com) Received: from hu-out-0506.google.com (hu-out-0506.google.com [72.14.214.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC07113C45A for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:32:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noeldude@gmail.com) Received: by hu-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 28so180834hub for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:32:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=tnZlgem2F5b/B4EGD29I06shCQ5dVGONsg4kKq/tTVo3uOKIe0+Z8n7bqHvcJD0S8dGTLSU8XD/eBVq5IPnPScKojvmom94TyQom/IPrSA2yPszDEpxZXygJlNYvcJUh1CHddfMWDWwhnIThAOTeojCFqopZ9ZmtL1UEglFGmP0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dwESN4opL6LvkcAHBWijqPzlEpiVPsBxC9i70BTYjF3fw04+S1J/33tBAAhk35J7gwC4vxLcdjd8Vjc46jIiGda57lQqOkopOvIuCO9SFMQnbSdW0PJRE/xskZL769oc4xcbL5KA+zsE4540giBUnRS7zqEqkTB4jbj5RRtdK9U= Received: by 10.82.162.14 with SMTP id k14mr2088572bue.1185509747630; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.82.178.3 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:15:47 -0500 From: "Noel Jones" To: "Matthew Seaman" In-Reply-To: <46A8FFF0.3050809@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46A86F40.1040208@lightray.org> <3342A9B9-056E-4C5A-852F-BAC2039E27CC@gmail.com> <46A88E7F.80907@lightray.org> <46A8FFF0.3050809@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Dylan Smith , Eric Crist , 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: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:32:16 -0000 On 7/26/07, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dylan Smith wrote: > > Eric Crist wrote: > >> 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. > > >> 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. > > > Thanks for that little suggestion. > > Would this mean that i could just disable sendmail > > totally(sendmail_enable="none")? > > Hmmm... no one seems to have cottoned onto the 'requires > authentication' statement in the original message. As far as I can > tell, ssmtp only allows authentication via the use of cryptographic > certificates -- which is probably the most secure way of doing > authentication but also tends not to be supported on many mail > systems. a fairly simple mail client that supports authentication: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ -- Noel Jones