Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 23:04:07 +0000 From: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> To: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR Message-ID: <19990209230407.B227@localhost> In-Reply-To: <19990208164800.A13705@scientia.demon.co.uk>; from Ben Smithurst on Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 04:48:00PM %2B0000 References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> <xzp3e4jl5ay.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> <19990207151411.A86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com> <19990208164800.A13705@scientia.demon.co.uk>
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On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 04:48:00PM +0000, Ben Smithurst wrote:
> Mark Ovens wrote:
>
> > Now all I've got to do is figure out how to make sendmail send my mail
> > (you'll notice from the header that I sent this message with Netscape).
> > I've looked at the manpage, the handbook, FAQ, and The Book but they
> > haven't really helped, they seem more to do with receiving mail. Is
> > there a good guide to setting up sendmail to _send_ mail using a dial-up
> > connection? Something like the mutt manual
> > (/usr/local/share/doc/mutt/manual.html)?
>
> Here's the .mc file I have..
>
> divert(0)
> VERSIONID(`')
> OSTYPE(bsd4.4)
> FEATURE(nouucp)
> FEATURE(nocanonify)
> FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains)
> DOMAIN(scientia.demon.co.uk)
> define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS', `e')
> define(`ESMTP_MAILER_FLAGS', `e')
> define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True')
> define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', 50)
> MAILER(local)
> MAILER(smtp)
>
Someone pointed me to the current freebsdzine, which has a tutorial
on setting this up. I followed it and it worked. Thanks for the
info though.
> The primary thing here is that is marks the SMTP and ESMTP mailers as
> expensive, and confCON_EXPENSIVE stops it trying to deliver to those
> straight away. When you do go online, use `sendmail -q'. I don't know
> how well that would work, since I use Exim, though in a couple of tests
> it seemed to work about right.
>
> I personally prefer Exim to sendmail, and you may find it worth a look
> (/usr/ports/mail/exim). If you decide to use that you'll find the
> exim-users list (information at www.exim.org) very helpful in general.
>
I'll take a look, thanks.
> > One last thing. I still haven't learned all the keystrokes in mutt yet
> > and sometimes use the wrong one, e.g. ``f'' to move to the next page (as
> > in vi). However as this means ``forward'' I get a ``To: '' prompt. How
> > do I cancel it? ESC and Ctrl-D don't work, Ctrl-C does but asks ``Exit
> > mutt?'' with ``y'' as the default answer. What is the correct key to
> > cancel a command?
>
> If you get a ``To:'' prompt like that, pressing return without entering
> anything will cancel it. That probably works in other places.
>
Doh, I never thought of something as simple as that.
> --
> Ben Smithurst
> ben@scientia.demon.co.uk
>
> send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key
>
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was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place.
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