Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:45:54 +0100 From: eoghan <eoghanj@gmail.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <65B04548-4EB7-4B60-887D-7AA3383F2605@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060825182054.GH78862@gothmog.pc> References: <280932DB-C727-4ED8-8985-72BC2C43EDA9@gmail.com> <20060825173513.GF78862@gothmog.pc> <C4D0A6DB-1F98-4C2F-B550-3A0F745EC83C@gmail.com> <20060825182054.GH78862@gothmog.pc>
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On 25 Aug 2006, at 19:20, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > If someone was to re-write a step by step guide for Sendmail on > FreeBSD, > it would take far more than a single email response. > > You should definitely start by reading, at least, the following: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail.html > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > sendmail.html > > For available configuration options and the functionality they > implement, you can also look at: /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README > > The Sendmail FAQ is also a valuable resource, and it is available > online > at: http://www.sendmail.org/faq/index.html > > In general, what you have as a goal is something that works like this: > > work > +--------------+ related +------------------+ > | | messages | | > | Sendmail | ====================> | Company's Mail | > | | | Gateway | > | Running | | | > | as | +------------------+ > | a local | > | MTA | > | | ==========. > | | | other +------------------+ > +--------------+ | messages | | > | | Mail Gateway | > `=========> | of your | > | Internet | > | Provider | > | | > +------------------+ > > This is very easy to do in FreeBSD. You just have to run `make' > once in > the `/etc/mail' directory. This will create two files, called: > > HOSTNAME.mc > HOSTNAME.submit.mc > > where `HOSTNAME' is your local host name. You can configure Sendmail, > by following the instructions in the Handbook, the help in the README > file of the Sendmail macros, at `/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README', and > making configuration changes to `HOSTNAME.mc'. > > You can direct all outgoing email from `localhost' to the mail gateway > of your ISP, by reading the comments in `/etc/mail/HOSTNAME.mc' and > enabling the `SMART_HOST' feature. Hey thanks a mill Giorgos Will read up on this. Eoghan
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