From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 8 10:13:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (adsl-216-102-90-210.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [216.102.90.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3402237B41E for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from fremont.bolingbroke.com (fremont.bolingbroke.com [216.102.90.210]) by fremont.bolingbroke.com (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fA8ICa5G004384; Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:12:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 10:12:36 -0800 (PST) From: Ken Bolingbroke To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren?= Neigaard Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMTP server setup In-Reply-To: <1005240009.1967.13.camel@lapdancer.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=X-UNKNOWN Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE 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 8 Nov 2001, [ISO-8859-1] S=F8ren Neigaard wrote: > I need to setup a SMTP server (I may have to run it on Linux, I'm having > a hard time converting them to FreeBSD), and I just want to know if its > hard, and where to find a good tutorial. Depending on your definition of hard... :-) Sendmail has decent documentation, an O'Reilly book, etc. > I also have a special requirement; It must require a username/password > to send mails (do I have to do this with OS users, or can I setup a > seperate database of users). This is called "SMTP AUTH" and is supported by Sendmail, and you can use a separate database of users. > Oh yes, and then there is the million $ question... When a user sends > a mail to this server, I want it to take the mail-data (sender, > subject and body) and deliver this to a URL as parameters. Can this be > done, or what is possible? Sendmail's Milter API could do this, or you could probably also do it with something like procmail as the local delivery agent. Ken Bolingbroke hacker@bolingbroke.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message