Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 23:15:47 -0500 From: "Noel Jones" <noeldude@gmail.com> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: Dylan Smith <dylan@lightray.org>, Eric Crist <mnslinky@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail question Message-ID: <cce506b0707262115h2a719df5wf1c258daefc9e749@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46A8FFF0.3050809@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <46A86F40.1040208@lightray.org> <3342A9B9-056E-4C5A-852F-BAC2039E27CC@gmail.com> <46A88E7F.80907@lightray.org> <46A8FFF0.3050809@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 7/26/07, Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Dylan Smith wrote: > > Eric Crist wrote: > >> On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:54 AMJul 26, 2007, Dylan Smith wrote: > >> > >>> I am currently on the last stages of setting up a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE > >>> File and Network Application Server. One of my last tasks is to > >>> simple forward all mail from root out through my isp's SMTP(requires > >>> authentication) server and to an email account i have elsewhere. That > >>> is to say i have no purpose for a mail server other than to handle > >>> mail from things like periodic and to move that mail elsewhere. > >>> > >>> Can this be easily accomplished? If so are there any guides/how-to's? > >>> I have done a search around my usual BSD sites and books and found > >>> nothing that is easily modified to my circumstances. > > >> It can be done, but it's a PITA with Sendmail. Look into > >> /usr/ports/mail/ssmtp. We use it on our systems here where we need to > >> simply get root's email off the box. Simple configuration file, works > >> well. > > > Thanks for that little suggestion. > > Would this mean that i could just disable sendmail > > totally(sendmail_enable="none")? > > Hmmm... no one seems to have cottoned onto the 'requires > authentication' statement in the original message. As far as I can > tell, ssmtp only allows authentication via the use of cryptographic > certificates -- which is probably the most secure way of doing > authentication but also tends not to be supported on many mail > systems. a fairly simple mail client that supports authentication: http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ -- Noel Jones
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