Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 22:07:45 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: MatzeLoCal@gmx.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail Message-ID: <20030731100745.GA62573@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <28932.1059632349@www62.gmx.net> References: <28932.1059632349@www62.gmx.net>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:19:09AM +0200, MatzeLoCal@gmx.de wrote:
[...]
> How do I set up mail in FreeBSD that it uses an external mail-server? In my
> case I need to send the messages that will send my cron and some apps. But
> our Systemadministrator will does not allow me to use the FreeBSD with sendmail
> as server, he says that I have to use our M$ Exchange as mail server.
If you want to get FreeBSD to forward your email to the MS-Exchange
server, you have to:
1. make sure sendmail is running. (ie remove sendmail_* lines from
/etc/rc.conf)
2. # cd /etc/mail
3. # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
4. edit `hostname`.mc and uncomment the following line:
define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')
5. replace `your.isp.mail.server' with your Exchange server.
6. # make
7. # make install
8. # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart
This will configure sendmail to send all non-local mail to the
Exchange Server for further processing (eg: to send email to the 'Net).
If you want to suck your email from the Exchange server, you'll have
to install something like ports/mail/fetchmail.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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