Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 23:31:01 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Doug Young <dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail / Sendmail Stuff Message-ID: <20000102233101.A501@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <007101bf5571$99e832a0$827e03cb@ORACLE> References: <007101bf5571$99e832a0$827e03cb@ORACLE>
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Doug Young wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 3.2 installation setup as a gateway with various
> other operating systems on a LAN, permanent dialup modem connection
> to net, & "real" IP addresses, & primary & secondary DNS at the "ISP"
> end. The gateway box runs straight CLI mode FreeBSD 3.2, twin pentium
> 100's, 16Mb RAM, 2 x 650 Mb SCSI hard drives. So far I send & receive
> email via the "ISP's" system however I'm trying to figure out how
> to configure a local mailserver. To date I've searched the net for
> tutorials, the mailing list archives, man mail, man sendmail, FreeBSD
> Handbook, O'Reilly's "System Administrators Guide", & "The Complete
> FreeBSD" etc but I'm still in the dark about all this stuff. Its not
> immediately essential that I send & receive mail from the FreeBSD box,
> but I think its imperative that I have some way of filtering incoming
> mail (if only to cater for the several hundred per day FreeBSD list
> ones).
I prefer Exim to sendmail for the MTA - it's in the ports
collection. YMMV, but I find Exim much easier to set up than Sendmail,
and it has built in filtering so you don't need to install procmail as
well.
> Other than "mail" it doesn't appear that I have any "mail
> user agent" installed ... running "elm", "pine", "mutt" just return
> "command not found".
Install mutt from the ports, it's by far the best MUA I've ever used.
> I would like to get away from the peculiarities of Microsoft mail,
> particularly the "long line / short line" nonsense ... but this
> doesn't seem possible using Outlook Express 5 / Windows 2000. Many
> of the emails I receive have imbedded URL's / email addresses so the
> hyperlink thing is nice to have ..... is it possible to run a mail
> client of any sort in effectively plain text mode but retaining the
> benefits of 20th century technology like hyperlinks ??
sure, press ctrl-B in Mutt and you can choose from a list of URLs to
view.
> Next issue is that of the application apparently required to transfer
> mail to / from Windows systems. I gather that sendmail doesn't see eye
> to eye with POP3, so something else is needed here, presumably one of
> the myriad "mail transfer agents", although the documentation isn't
> particularly explicit about where these fit in with my setup.
No, you need a POP3 server. Try cucipop (you guessed it, it's in the ports).
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