Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:17:10 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: L Goodwin <xrayv19@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Configuring FreeBSD 6.2 to use sendmail for sending only Message-ID: <B5C8AD63-103A-4813-992B-2083ECE8677C@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <558468.64887.qm@web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <558468.64887.qm@web58114.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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On Aug 30, 2007, at 3:12 PM, L Goodwin wrote: > I wrote a shell script that backs up the file server. > I would like to modify this script to email a > notification message to a public email address. Use cron, which will automatically email out the results of your script to any email address you like. > Seems like sendmail should do the job nicely, but I've never set it > up before. > > What specific steps (including network-specific) need > to be performed to get sendmail working for outgoing > mail only in a secure manner? Please see the fine Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html Although, it is entirely reasonable to consider using Postfix instead. -- -Chuck
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