From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 10:58:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B6D337B400 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:58:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16dbwr-000Ew2-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:58:37 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id C65E513040 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:58:36 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 6002) id 6598422590; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:58:36 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 19:58:36 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Config. FreeBSD to use an external mail server Message-ID: <20020220185836.GH3600@raggedclown.net> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020220121350.03569200@pop.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020220121350.03569200@pop.earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:15:57PM -0500, B.K. DeLong wrote: > Hi all - > > I've been trying to figure out how to send mail out of my mailserver > without running smtp or POP services. > > Basically, I want to do the following: > > mail -s "New IP" bkdelong@pobox.com < /.currentip > > How do I configure "mail" to use an external SMTP server?? > > Thanks in advance. > You will have to use some kind of MTA to talk SMTP to an external server. Or write a script that talks enough SMTP to send the message to the external server... :) -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message