From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 1 21:13:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C1B37B6FA for ; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:13:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0353.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.251.98]) by merlin.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA18909; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:13:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA01946; Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:12:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 21:11:59 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Steve Van Den Akker Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <20000701211158.B1820@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <003b01bfe3da$fb214320$b48199ce@gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <003b01bfe3da$fb214320$b48199ce@gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com>; from vandena@ispchannel.com on Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:07:03PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 11:07:03PM -0500, Steve Van Den Akker wrote: > Being still a relative newby to FreeBSD, is there a "sendmail for dummies" > FAQ or other cheat sheet I can consult to help me set this up? What I want > to do is use fetchmail to retrieve email from my other POP3 mail accounts > all to my FreeBSD system, so I only have one email "account" to look at and > use (my FreeBSD machine). > > Suggestions? Yeah. Do nothing. For grabbing mail off of remote POP3 servers, you really only have to worry about configuring fetchmail(1) correctly. The "out of the box" sendmail will handle the local delivery hand-off from fetchmail without a problem. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message