Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 18:41:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com (Francis J. Bruening) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd) Subject: Re: sendmail / fetchmail config under 3.3?!? Looking for pointers Message-ID: <199909262241.SAA90432@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMOEONCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> from "Francis J. Bruening" at "Sep 26, 1999 01:48:36 pm"
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Francis J. Bruening wrote, [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > 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'm on @Home too. This is exactly how I do it as well... Well, I'm an ol' elm user, not that new-fangled mutt stuff, but that has nothing to to with your problem. Oh, and I filter it all through procmail, but that's for the future. > 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) > > Do I have sendmail configured incorrectly? First, I'd check that it is running at all, % ps aux | grep sendmail If it is, try sending mail to yourself, % echo "This is a test" | mail -v -s "TEST" <yourusername>@localhost And watch the debug output the '-v' flag has it produce. That should help verify if sendmail is working at all. > I started to dig through the > doc(s) on sendmail, and am horrifed (OK, not really) at the complexity > of it. No, no, it's alright to be horrified by sendmail. > I never configured sendmail when I installed, do I need to do > so now? If so, is there something like sendmailconf? The file is /etc/sendmail.cf. If you value your sanity do not cast your eyes upon it. The default sendmail.cf that comes with FreeBSD _should_ be just fine for your needs. There may be reasons for you to change it (if, for example, you want to forward all your outgoing mail through @Home's SMTP hosts), but what you are trying to do should work with the default. Get this working first. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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