Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 22:17:45 +0100 From: Mark Ovens <mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org> To: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> Cc: freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail / fetchmail config under 3.3?!? Looking for pointers Message-ID: <19990926221745.A4253@marder-1> In-Reply-To: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMOEONCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> References: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMOEONCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
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On Sun, Sep 26, 1999 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Francis J. Bruening wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just installed 3.3 last weekend, and have been chipping
> away at getting things configured just so. I'm new to FBSD,
> and am not a unix guru, so sorry if this questions seems somewhat
> pedantic.
>
> 1) WRT mail: I have a LAN connection to an ISP (@home) accessable
> through POP3, sending using SMTP. I want to
> be able to send / recieve e-mail. digging around it seems the
> easiest way to do that is to use fetchmail / sendmail. (Someone
> please let me know if there is a better way) I plan on using Mutt
> as my mail client.
>
> I installed fetchmail (used the port, very slick! I'm still impressed
> with how well ports work). Now I try to debug fetchmail, and I get
> the following messages:
>
> ... lots of "octet" messages about each file in my POP3 mailbox
> ...
> fetchmail> SMTP connect to localhost failed
> fetchmail> SMTP transaction error while fetching
> fetchmail> error 10?!? (if I remember correctly)
>
Looks like you've got localhost set up as your SMTP server.
Try running fetchmailconf which should have been installed with
the port. It's a GUI front-end for generating ~/.fetchmailrc.
FWIW, I'm running the same setup; sendmail, fetchmail, and mutt
(with procmail thrown in for good measure).
> Do I have sendmail configured incorrectly? I started to dig through the
> doc(s) on sendmail, and am horrifed (OK, not really) at the complexity
> of it. I never configured sendmail when I installed, do I need to do
> so now? If so, is there something like sendmailconf?
>
> Can someone point me to a quick and easy way to configure it to meet my
> humble needs (use my system as a workstation, without lots of fancy
> options for SPAM filtering etc?) I just need to connect to my ISP mailbox
> using POP3, and send mail through my ISP mailer...
>
> Any help is much appreciated. Once I get mail working, I won't need to
> boot back into Windows to use mail..
>
> thanks greatly!
>
> Regards,
>
> Francis
>
>
>
>
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