From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 07:31:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2E2116A400 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:31:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2BA13C45D for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:31:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile.ondsl.gr [83.235.244.135]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l5C7Uhtc023602 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:30:50 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5C7UKL1001568; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 10:30:36 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l5BLeZSw002335; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:40:35 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:40:35 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gary Kline Message-ID: <20070611214035.GD2127@kobe.laptop> References: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> <20070611162626.GA63738@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070611162626.GA63738@thought.org> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.43, required 5, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.47, BAYES_00 -2.60, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12 0.50) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 07:31:02 -0000 On 2007-06-11 09:26, Gary Kline 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].