From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 09:39:11 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00ADE16A46B for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:39:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bornboulder77@yahoo.com) Received: from n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com (n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.237.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A72B113C44C for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:39:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bornboulder77@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.230.28] by n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Jun 2007 09:39:10 -0000 Received: from [66.196.101.132] by t1.bullet.re2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Jun 2007 09:39:10 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by rrr3.mail.re1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 11 Jun 2007 09:39:10 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 177251.68132.bm@rrr3.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 50273 invoked by uid 60001); 11 Jun 2007 09:39:07 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=4GJd7OdOHWL1kFFuaA9X4uy17hCwwQxBdRLwl/jiiYxCCqGx7YRXXYDjGRXVdvNHufx+azuC89yI2+k39vQX74r3ux63sHGUyDTaQiCpkdD3eqmotyK741CyELIfvq7ibij44CzBAHSpbxa2pY+1rdIHzbfr8w3nIZupU5kx1fw=; X-YMail-OSG: 2UtWJmkVM1mQkgf9FGggOA5zapaElOODrWVvWauS9ImqR8LWaE4fKrrbC.O2ql7HZlck9hO9ncn8qpMsO33bIY9sFv7kdLsDTCDQV_QpulY.rKkz6QrgBQ-- Received: from [76.211.254.121] by web57508.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:39:07 PDT Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:39:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Bjorn Boulder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <912525.50114.qm@web57508.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: bornboulder77@yahoo.com Subject: Re: [FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:39:11 -0000 People, I got sendmail working to send mail. I started with this: http://www.google.com/search?q=bsd+sendmail+configuration >From there I found 2 excellent links which answered all my questions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html http://www.technoids.org/freebsdsendmailfaqs.html It's easy to configure sendmail so it is only a sender, not a receiver of mail: In /etc/rc.conf put this: sendmail_enable="NO" # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO). And from the faq link this was useful since it told me how to start sendmail: 5. How do I start sendmail? # cd /etc/mail # make start 6. How do I stop sendmail? # cd /etc/mail # make stop After I started sendmail I waited a bit and then sure enough, I found the e-mail I was looking for in my yahoo account. -b ___________________________________________________________________________________ You snooze, you lose. Get messages ASAP with AutoCheck in the all-new Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_html.html