Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:40:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail? Message-ID: <20070611214035.GD2127@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20070611162626.GA63738@thought.org> References: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20070611162626.GA63738@thought.org>
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On 2007-06-11 09:26, Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> wrote: > Since I've used sendmail for a dozen years--largely by hit or > miss and following others' examples' let me add my two cents'. > A couple years ago I bought a (used) copy of SENDMAIL (by > O'Reilly, whose books are usually ++outstanding). I found the > book virtually useless. > > It may be only *me*, but when somebody explains something to > me, I get it. Reading 50 pages of dry text is like eating > sawdust, so if you can get one of the text-to-speech apps > going, having that read parts (or all) of the README might be a > big help. > > I see, down-queue, some helpful hints. I have a bunch of > cheat-sheet files; how-to's that have things spelled out in > cookbook form or in practical theory form--things that are > easily implementable. My SENDMAIL file is many pages. Maybe > it's worth editing and putting up.... As long as it's adequately commented, yes please do :-) I would at least try to skim through it, and see if I can learn interesting bits. Mostly because I was surprised to read ``many pages'' [i.e. my own Sendmail configuration is barely 4 printed pages of material, and more than half of them are comments].
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