From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 6 2:47:26 2001 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 6 02:47:24 2001 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from relay4.inwind.it (relay4.inwind.it [212.141.53.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC9D37B400 for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 02:47:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [62.98.59.155] (62.98.59.155) by relay4.inwind.it (5.1.056) id 3A4B0A720021155B for questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:47:22 +0100 Received: (qmail 2731 invoked by uid 1001); 6 Jan 2001 10:46:21 -0000 Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 11:46:21 +0100 From: Francesco Casadei To: Andreas Ntaflos Cc: Francesco Casadei , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: help needed using a mail user agent (eg mutt) with pop3 services (eg gmx)? Message-ID: <20010106114621.A2673@junior.kasby> References: <3A55DDA4.3CB13AA8@gmx.net> <20010105215423.A1153@junior.kasby> <20010105220951.A90940@granat.chello.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010105220951.A90940@granat.chello.at>; from root@granat.chello.at on Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:09:51PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 10:09:51PM +0000, Andreas Ntaflos wrote: > wow, thanks very much. that's really comprehensive. fetchmail did the trick for getting the mail from the server, very good. but somehow i have to find out how to configure sendmail. you use serialmail for sending mail, did i get this right? > > is it better or simpler than sendmail? > > one problem with sending mail is, that i am a simple user with an ISP account, and my hostname is not a really qualified domainname, which sendmail seems to have problems with... > > but it's abit easier, since i am on cable modem, so no dial up or pppd problems. > > dont know, have to figure this out. > > thanks a lot, > regards > Andreas Ntaflos > [snip] > end of the original message I don't like sendmail, it's too difficult to set up for a dialup system. I've replaced it with Qmail. Initially I used Qmail to send mail directly to the destination's SMTP server, but after few successfully sent messages I got blocked by DUL (doh!). Being a dialup user I have to use my ISP's mail server as a relay to send mail. To achieve this I use Qmail to deliver outgoing mail in a maildir folder (a sort of queue) and then I use maildirsmtp to send messages to my ISP's mail server for delivery. You can find maildirsmtp in the package serialmail-0.75 from the Ports. If you send mail to your ISP's SMTP server you are not required to specify a fully qualified hostname (at least it is true for all my ISPs). Sometimes I have a hostname; in this case calling the script mail-out executes: maildirsmtp /var/qmail/alias/pppdir alias-ppp- \ `cat /var/run/smtpserver` $HOST_NAME Sometimes I don't have a hostname (only a dynamic IP), then I executes maildirsmtp /var/qmail/alias/pppdir alias-ppp- \ `cat /var/run/smtpserver` `cat /var/run/local_ip` The SMTP server specified in /var/run/smtpserver is the relay host I have to use to send mail to remote addresses. This host accept mail from me by checking my IP address. Francesco Casadei To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message