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Subject: Re: e-mail: howto?
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I added the DS line. I installed cucipop. Then I started netscape. I noticed
I can specify a POP and
SMTP server in Netscape. I am wondering if it was really necessary to
install cucipop.
What do you think?

But: I specified the SMTP and POP servers and sent a mail to myself: it
works! Cool.
(Would this be the last mail I send from Win98? :-) )

Thanks for the clear answer.


----- Original Message -----
From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org>
To: GDB <g-d-b@freegates.be>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: e-mail: howto?


> GDB wrote:
>
> > I want to use e-mail under FreeBSD 3.2. How can I do that? sendmail
> > is running, but where do I have to specify my ISP POP and SMTP
> > servers? What do I have to do to send and receive e-mail with, lets
> > say, xfmail?
>
> Mark told you about fetchmail and stuff, but didn't mention the SMTP
> stuff... To specify your ISP's SMTP server, and you're using Sendmail,
> change the empty "DS" line in /etc/sendmail.cf to
>
> DSsmtp.yourisp.net
>
> replacing "smtp.yourisp.net" with the smarthost your ISP tells you to
> use.  (Alternatively you can build a new .cf file using the m4
configuration
> mechanism.  See /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf for all that stuff.)
>
> After that, mail clients like Mutt and Pine which call Sendmail
> directly will just work, and you should tell other mail clients to use
> "localhost" as the SMTP server.
>
> If you use a mail client which needs to collect mail using POP3 rather
> than accessing your mail file (/var/mail/$USER) directly, you'll need to
> install a POP3 server too.  I recommend cucipop, which is in the ports
> collection.
>
> If you have a PPP dialup connection you might like to look at the
> /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup files which you can use to run "sendmail -q" and
> "fetchmail" each time you go online.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> --
> Ben Smithurst                 / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D
> FreeBSD Documentation Project /
>



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