From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 22 12:46:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail17.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7ED937B400 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:46:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 8880 invoked from network); 22 Mar 2002 20:46:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO helios.dub.net) ([216.27.176.75]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 22 Mar 2002 20:46:34 -0000 Received: by helios.dub.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DBCDE312E; Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:46:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 12:46:33 -0800 From: Jim Mock To: Joel Dinel Cc: weiwuzhang@263.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config mail client Message-ID: <20020322204633.GG97991@helios.dub.net> Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org References: <20020322145742.A52883@sunder.touchtunes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020322145742.A52883@sunder.touchtunes.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 22 Mar 2002 at 14:57:42 -0500, Joel Dinel wrote: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:50:00AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > > But how to config my BSD system so that when I send a mail using > > 'mail' it knows which smtp server to use and which pop3 server to > > check for incoming mails? If it takes steps to do it > > The 'mail' command will use the local MTA (Mail Transfert Agent) to > send your mail. In this case, the default is Sendmail. [snip...] > Sendmail will not fetch your POP3 mail. That's not its job. You'll > need 'procmail' for that. It's in the ports tree. > > You can mail me if you need more info on ports tree, or configuring > procmail. It's not procmail's job either :-) Take a look at fetchmail or one of the other mail fetching utilities in the ports tree. - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message