Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:56:09 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Supote Leelasupphakorn <pjn0211@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help: can't send email from my box. Message-ID: <3EFB25A9.4050205@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20030626040316.24118.qmail@web40613.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030626040316.24118.qmail@web40613.mail.yahoo.com>
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Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: [ ... ] > My question are > 1. Is it possible for sending emails from the host that hasn't run "sendmail" > on it. Sure, but you will have to use a program like pine or Mozilla, which lets you configure it to use a remote SMTP host. > 2. It seem "mail" try to connect SMTP on localhost.mytestdomain.com. If I want > "mail" connect to SMTP on the remote host (@mydomain.com's mail server), or > say I want to change my "outgoing mail host". How can I do this ? The command-line mail program expects sendmail to be working locally; I don't believe you can tell it not to connect to localhost. To change your default mail host, look for the SMART_HOST directive in /etc/mail/freebsd.mc... -- -Chuck
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