Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 06:32:50 +0000 From: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> To: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: freebsd@edvax.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [commercial] sendmail setup request Message-ID: <bab0e663a9a10633c1c6d549ab1dbe20@kathe.in> In-Reply-To: <wu7h8l90xxm.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <wu7h8l90xxm.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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On 2018-07-09 05:40 AM, Olivier wrote: > Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> writes: > >> my goals are very basic and hence quite simple. >> i should be able to log into the freebsd instance as my username >> which would be the same as my email address (mayuresh@kathe.in) >> and use mailx to go through my emails. >> i don't need imap nor webmail. >> i know it must be a simple sendmail setup, but frankly, i'm not >> capable enough to understand the in-and-out of sendmail to be >> able to configure it to my requirement. > > If your needs are really limited to what you describe, you may consider > using fetchmail to get the mail from your current mail server (at your > registrar). Fetchmail should dump your mail on your FreeBSD system and > you will be able to use mailx. That way, you avoid all the problems of > setting up a machine intended to receive mail. > > The configuration to send mail from your FreeBSD/mailx machine should > be > quite simple (just a few lines to tell sendmail to push your outgoing > mail to the mail server at your registrar). > > If you really inted to set-up your onw complete mail system, goodluck, > because it is a lot of work to do :) my needs are indeed limited to what i have described, on reading it, you would notice that i do not wish to have my mails be stored locally. i want to have the mails on a server instance so that i can access them from a machine other than mine via ssh. i know that setting up a complete mail system would be a lot of work, and that's why i have tagged my emails with the "commercial" tag as well as mentioned in my first mail in this thread that i wouldn't mind paying the fees required by someone who can build me that sendmail configuration.
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