Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:25:39 +0300 From: Toomas Aas <toomas.aas@raad.tartu.ee> To: Bjorn Boulder <bornboulder77@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail? Message-ID: <466CF8F3.9080605@raad.tartu.ee> In-Reply-To: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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Bjorn Boulder wrote: > Here is what I want: > > 1. I want to send mail > 2. I don't want to receive mail from the outside > 3. I do want to receive mail from the box itself. The default Sendmail configuration on FreeBSD should be sufficient for what you want to do. You just need to start Sendmail the right way. Make sure you have the following in /etc/rc.conf: sendmail_enable="NO" Then give this command: /etc/rc.d/sendmail start Now sendmail should start up, listening on loopback interface only. You can verify this with command: sockstat -4 Among the output you should see this line: root sendmail 562 4 tcp4 127.0.0.1:25 *:* Then try telnet localhost 25 and make sure you get connected. Additionally try telnet yourserver 25 from another host and make sure you don't get connected. I have one web server (FreeBSD 5.5) with sendmail set up this way. -- Toomas Aas
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