Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 17:58:43 -0400 From: Schiz0 <schiz0phrenic21@gmail.com> To: "Bjorn Boulder" <bornboulder77@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail? Message-ID: <8d23ec860706101458r3c562086g5d05dffb479de1b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <922630.70501.qm@web57510.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <922630.70501.qm@web57510.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On 6/10/07, Bjorn Boulder <bornboulder77@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > People, > > I need help with sendmail on my FreeBSD box running: > FreeBSD 5.3 > > Specifically, I need help using sendmail to send mail. > > I inherited this FreeBSD box from a guy who left for > another gig. > > The box appears to be stable. It's been up since Nov > 2006 > and is running a couple of simple web sites. > > The web sites work okay. > > We want to put up a 3rd site which needs to send mail > to people who register. > > I'm assuming that I need to get sendmail working. > > That is, I need it to send mail. > > It does not need to receive mail because we are using > google apps to receive all of our mail from the > outside. > > It was easy to setup: > > -Follow directions here: http://google.com/a/ > -Update the MX records for our domains > > When I try using sendmail I run this simple test: > > 1. create a text file, sendme.txt: > > From: bornboulder77@yahoo.com > Subject: test mail > Hi Bjorn > Bye Bjorn > > 2. Run shell command: > /usr/sbin/sendmail bornboulder77@yahoo.com < > sendme.txt > > Result: The mail is not delivered. > > I'd welcome any tips for configuring sendmail to send > mail. > > -b > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready > for the edge of your seat? > Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. > http://tv.yahoo.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > Also check /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf along with everything in /etc/mail/
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