Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 00:31:06 +0200 From: Mats <unix@comhem.se> To: Bjorn Boulder <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail? Message-ID: <20070610223106.GA858@cyborg.c83-250-138-187.bredband.comhem.se> In-Reply-To: <922630.70501.qm@web57510.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <922630.70501.qm@web57510.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:13:02PM -0700, Bjorn Boulder wrote: > > People, > > I need help with sendmail on my FreeBSD box running: > FreeBSD 5.3 > > Specifically, I need help using sendmail to send mail. > > I inherited this FreeBSD box from a guy who left for > another gig. > > The box appears to be stable. It's been up since Nov > 2006 > and is running a couple of simple web sites. > > The web sites work okay. > > We want to put up a 3rd site which needs to send mail > to people who register. > > I'm assuming that I need to get sendmail working. > > That is, I need it to send mail. > > It does not need to receive mail because we are using > google apps to receive all of our mail from the > outside. > > It was easy to setup: > > -Follow directions here: http://google.com/a/ > -Update the MX records for our domains > > When I try using sendmail I run this simple test: > > 1. create a text file, sendme.txt: > > From: bornboulder77@yahoo.com > Subject: test mail > Hi Bjorn > Bye Bjorn > > 2. Run shell command: > /usr/sbin/sendmail bornboulder77@yahoo.com < > sendme.txt > > Result: The mail is not delivered. > > I'd welcome any tips for configuring sendmail to send > mail. Is it so that you haven't set up your sendmail to deliver outside your network? You need to change some things in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf in that case. You probably have a qualyfied domainname? But before I write a long description how to do it, can you tell a little more? Does it deliver localy? /Mats
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