From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 28 09:59:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1065F16A4CE for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:59:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA11F43D39 for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:59:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j1S9wkb15160; Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:58:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Warren Block" , "Ken Hawkins" Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 01:58:44 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <20050227161826.L41045@wonkity.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: complete rookie sendmail question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 09:59:24 -0000 > -----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