From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 8 9:27:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailrelay2.lrz-muenchen.de (mailrelay2.lrz-muenchen.de [129.187.254.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA35737B409 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from terhardt@ei.tum.de) Received: from [212.224.54.231] by mailout.lrz-muenchen.de with ESMTP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 18:26:59 +0200 Message-Id: <3B488AE6.A7274A75@ei.tum.de> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 18:31:34 +0200 From: Ernst Terhardt Organization: ET X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.13 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sendmail configuration Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello, dear e-mail-sendmail Wizards. I would love to be able to send a problem report using send-pr, HOWEVER, how do I get send-pr working on my just-installed FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE???? To my understanding, send-pr does require nothing else than that sendmail is configured for sending messages to an SMTP mail server. After many hours of reading innumerable text- and script-files and of fiddling around with /etc/freebsd.mc, /etc/aliases, /etc/local-host-names, /etc/virtusertable, /etc/mailertable, /etc/etcetcetcetc ... I have not made any progress and I feel somewhat fooled (By the way, I had the same experience when I was using Linux, and I 'solved' the problem by entering X and netscape). I am a kind of (single-) 'standard' user, i.e., I am using a single PC at home and I have a working TCP-IP connection to an ISP plus one mail-server name for incoming mail and one for outgoing mail. My problem merely is where and how to put the latter two mail-server names, and (for the time being) I wish to let alone the thousands of details and of m4-dependent configuration methods used by sendmail. While this is straightforward and simple when using netscape and MS internet explorer, with sendmail it turns out to be a black art which I seem to be incapable of. I suspect that this discrepancy could be made disappearing by a kind of documentation that lets one see the wood instead of too many trees (sendmail seems to be a contra-masterpiece in this respect!) - and, in particular, I suspect that the problem for a majority of 'naive' users like myself can be resolved by help of one (!!!) fairly simple shell script or Makefile that puts those mail-server names into the right places of the vast sendmail-forest and creates the proper local-host-names-virtusertable-mailertable-etc-etc files, not to mention sendmail.cf. FreeBSDs /etc/mail/Makefile is a highly appreciable approach to that, but in its present form it is not sufficient for stupid people like me. Besides sending problem reports by send-pr I also wish to get access to my incoming-mail server on a non-X, non-netscape basis, and I understand that this requires a POP daemon being installed, plus one of those e-mail clients available in the ports collection. My question here is: Can this (at least on a basic level) simply be accomplished with 'popper' and 'mail' ? Thank you for your patience. Ernst Terhardt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message