Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 19:08:31 -0800 From: Greg Maruszeczka <greg@grokking.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring default 6.0 install to send mail Message-ID: <4372B9AF.8000300@grokking.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY13-F8201C453632D3B8FD8402F3660@phx.gbl> References: <BAY13-F8201C453632D3B8FD8402F3660@phx.gbl>
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Brooke Landers wrote: > Hello list. I am learning FreeBSD and I'd like to know how to configure > Sendmail to simply forward mail although it seems it's doing this by > default. I can send mail, but it's being rejected since > mylocalhost.mydomain.com doesn't resolve. I'm using internal hosts that > will never have DNS entries. > > I'm looking for somewhere where I can specify that user@mylocalhost can > send mail as user@mydomain.com. I'm pretty sure that my mail would be > accepted if I can do this. > > I don't want to set up a mail server, I'd just like to know how I can > get my logs and admin mail forwarded to an external address. I apologize > for not sending this to a sendmail list, but I figured there may be > something simple and specific to FreeBSD that I have overlooked. > > Thank you for any help :) > BL > If that's all you want to do the simplest thing is this (as root): cd /etc/mail vi aliases Look for the entry for root: uncomment it and add whatever external address you want after the colon. After saving and exiting: newaliases Now all system mail should be sent to the external address you specified in /etc/mail/aliases. Test it by doing this: mail -s "Test" root <ctrl-d> G
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