From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 31 00:28:55 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 2D9EF16A41B for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:28:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: from web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com (web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.236.136]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D0C6B13C4CE for ; Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:28:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xrayv19@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 11001 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Aug 2007 00:01:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=SsJvz6X8hl+Ijn8/s/7q/GLl6DZZmuxTO/9hTA6s78vzucXSnEw8aZOTa00wX9lgpN5AATnHUuahsQnTuOzy1NGPH9gFQtjAhh39PR3lN40xFghfiOhNAtpc3/OyRplEW1k++7o1CpuGdIefIK8tteBd93/YmH+iFr5DINGF/qU=; X-YMail-OSG: BDpsL9QVM1lRUYLoRVewJ5qSP2ymkv3XV1LsARxVmrG0OiMkwe_LbsDWk3FPQKX7r5C3LL3btErHOdTZXCqQFkm9o9EFeYuPCp7tiGWaj57gC8WL1LNSR0y.njgtVwxU Received: from [131.191.82.223] by web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:01:56 PDT Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:01:56 -0700 (PDT) From: L Goodwin To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <551986.10942.qm@web58113.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only 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, 31 Aug 2007 00:28:55 -0000 Chuck, I'd prefer to have the script handle the mailing so I can test the script (with email send) manually, independent of cron. Still looking for specifics on setting this up and a bourne shell script example that sends an email. Thanks! --- Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:12 PM, L Goodwin wrote: > > I wrote a shell script that backs up the file > server. > > I would like to modify this script to email a > > notification message to a public email address. > > Use cron, which will automatically email out the > results of your > script to any email address you like. > > > Seems like sendmail should do the job nicely, but > I've never set it > > up before. > > > > What specific steps (including network-specific) > need > > to be performed to get sendmail working for > outgoing > > mail only in a secure manner? > > Please see the fine Handbook: > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html > > Although, it is entirely reasonable to consider > using Postfix instead. > > -- > -Chuck > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433