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Date:      Sun, 02 Jul 2000 02:14:16 GMT
From:      "peter kok" <aoypcc@hotmail.com>
To:        cjclark@alum.mit.edu
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: email setting, please teach or give me a hint
Message-ID:  <20000702021416.85744.qmail@hotmail.com>

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Hello Crist

Tks much for your reply.

Firstly I only want to setup email so that I don't have to setup qmail.
Please let me know the method I can do that.

tks much

best regards
Peter

>From: "Crist J. Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
>To: peter kok <aoypcc@hotmail.com>
>CC: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: email setting, please teach or give me a hint
>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 12:18:02 -0700
>
>On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 02:36:30PM +0000, peter kok wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I setup DNS server.
> > the hostname of machine is 'PC1'
> > and my domain is 'abc.com'
> >
> > I sent email to 'angela' who is a user in same 'PC1'. the email' sender
> > displayed is 'peter@pc1.abc.com'
> > I want peter@abc.com instead of peter@pc1.abc.com.
> > and I am sure setting in db.abc
> >
> > -- abc.com.  IN  MX    pc1.abc.com.  ------
> >
> > How do I solve this problem?
>
>It's not a DNS issue. It is an issue with your mailer. I could point
>you the right way to get sendmail to do this how you like, but...
>
> > On the other hands, I discover the inetd.conf including following 
>entries:
> >
> > #pop3   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/popper
> > popper
> > #
> > # example entry for the optional imap4 server
> > #
> > #imap4  stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/local/libexec/imapd
> > imapd
> > #smtp   stream  tcp     nowait  qmaild  /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env  tcp-env
> > /var/qm
> >
> > I want to set up qmail instead of sendmail.
>
>You apparently do not want to use sendmail.
>
> > What do I set up after removing the '#'?
>
>In my /etc/inetd.conf, I have the following note before that last
>line,
>
>   # Example entry for the optional qmail MTA
>   #  NOTE: This is no longer the correct way to handle incoming SMTP
>   #        connections for qmail.  Use tcpserver 
>(http://cr.yp.to/ucspi-tcp.html)
>   #        instead.
>
>Might want to check that out.
>
>I do not use qmail, so I cannot give detailed help in that area,
>sorry.
>--
>Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu

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