From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 11 16:26:28 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 E585316A41F for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:26:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6600613C4AE for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:26:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: from tao.thought.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l5BGQQOG063836; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:26:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@tao.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by tao.thought.org (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id l5BGQQ9q063835; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:26:26 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Bjorn Boulder Message-ID: <20070611162626.GA63738@thought.org> References: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <424129.14768.qm@web57509.mail.re1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 16:26:29 -0000 On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:17:45PM -0700, Bjorn Boulder wrote: > Well I checked this file: > > ll /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 183289 Nov 4 2004 > /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README > > It's about 50 pages long. > > I'm worried that I'd miss something if I try to > understand all of it. > > I need something more dumbed down. > > Here is what I want: > > 1. I want to send mail > 2. I don't want to receive mail from the outside > 3. I do want to receive mail from the box itself. > > Actually 3 is not a hard requirement. > > Help anyone? > Since I've used sendmail for a dozen years--largely by hit or miss and following others' examples' let me add my two cents'. A couple years ago I bought a (used) copy of SENDMAIL (by O'Reilly, whose books are usually ++outstanding). I found the book virtually useless. It may be only *me*, but when somebody explains something to me, I get it. Reading 50 pages of dry text is like eating sawdust, so if you can get one of the text-to-speech apps going, having that read parts (or all) of the README might be a big help. I see, down-queue, some helpful hints. I have a bunch of cheat-sheet files; how-to's that have things spelled out in cookbook form or in practical theory form--things that are easily implementable. My SENDMAIL file is many pages. Maybe it's worth editing and putting up.... HTH! gary > -b > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. > http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix