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Date:      Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:58:44 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "Warren Block" <wblock@wonkity.com>, "Ken Hawkins" <rosewoodblues@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: complete rookie sendmail question
Message-ID:  <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNAEJAFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050227161826.L41045@wonkity.com>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Warren Block
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:26 PM
> To: Ken Hawkins
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: complete rookie sendmail question
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ken Hawkins wrote:
>
> > alright I found an old blurb about handling a scenario
> similar to mine:
> >
> >
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/
> 014468.html
> >
> > it essentially says:
> >
> >
> > If you want to get FreeBSD to forward your email to the MS-Exchange
> > server, you have to:
> >
> >    1. make sure sendmail is running. (ie remove sendmail_* lines from
> >       /etc/rc.conf)
>
> Put sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> >    2. # cd /etc/mail
> >    3. # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
>
> That's doing things the hard way and might miss things the
> Makefile will
> do for you.

This is true unless your running a full-blown production mailserver for
a company or some such.  In that case you had better be sufficiently
experienced that the makefile will just get in your way.

Ted



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