Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:26:26 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> To: Bjorn Boulder <bornboulder77@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail? Message-ID: <20070611162626.GA63738@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:17:45PM -0700, Bjorn Boulder wrote: > Well I checked this file: > > ll /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 183289 Nov 4 2004 > /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README > > It's about 50 pages long. > > I'm worried that I'd miss something if I try to > understand all of it. > > I need something more dumbed down. > > Here is what I want: > > 1. I want to send mail > 2. I don't want to receive mail from the outside > 3. I do want to receive mail from the box itself. > > Actually 3 is not a hard requirement. > > Help anyone? > 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.... HTH! gary > -b > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. > http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix
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