From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 10:47:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E52C37B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:47:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dleimbac@earthlink.net) Received: from mutt.home.net (1Cust82.tnt1.starkville.ms.da.uu.net [63.30.107.82]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06031; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:47:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dave@localhost) by mutt.home.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5CHokT00699; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:50:46 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dave) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:50:45 -0500 From: David Leimbach To: "Ian P. Thomas" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand Message-ID: <20010612125045.A593@mutt.home.net> References: <20010612073510.A1178@mutt.home.net> <200106121704.NAA01631@scraemondaemon.my.domain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106121704.NAA01631@scraemondaemon.my.domain>; from ipthomas_77@yahoo.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:04:32PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD mutt.home.net 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE 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 I have sendmail set up the way I like it right now... I just don't like knowing what I did to make it happen. I used install-sendmail [a perl package] to get it set up... I tried using grep and other things to see what exactly it was that I did but sendmail is just unintelligible. :) I wouldn't mind learning sendmail... complex things don't bother me so long as they perform really well... How does postfix compare to sendmail as far as performance/security? Dave On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 01:04:32PM -0400, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > I am using Sendmail right now with Earthlink, if you want I can > help get you straightened out. Here is a good web site to check out for > help, specifically see the docs section and one particular article by > Simone something. > > www.moongroup.org > > I map my local username to my yahoo name and send out my mail > through Earthlink's SMTP mail server. Procmail works very easily with > sendmail, just one line in your .mc file. > > Ian > > In the last episode, David Leimbach stated... > > > > I would like to rid myself of the really difficult to understand sendmail. > > > > > > Does anyone know of any other program that can do the following: > > > > 1) Map local user names to my ISP email address. > > dave@localhost dleimbac@earthlink.net > > > > 2) Work with procmail as a delivery agent. [filters] > > 3) Relay my outgoing mail to an external SMTP server. > > > > > > I like the fact that sendmail does all of these things but it is > > ridiculously hard to understand what the configuration files mean. > > > > I have the current setup where I have to run a cron job to get > > my outgoing mail delivered by doing sendmail -q. > > > > Its really irritating... If there is a major upgrade to sendmail > > I won't be able to re-configure it! :) > > > > I used the install-sendmail Perl script I found on freshmeat.net to > > get it configured as it is now... Unfortunately I have no clue what it > > did. > > > > > > Dave > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message