From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 2 17:15:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBBF414C4C for ; Sun, 2 Jan 2000 17:15:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.91.36] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 124uSj-000Lia-00; Sun, 02 Jan 2000 23:31:01 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 124uSj-00009q-00; Sun, 02 Jan 2000 23:31:01 +0000 Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 23:31:01 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Doug Young Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail / Sendmail Stuff Message-ID: <20000102233101.A501@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <007101bf5571$99e832a0$827e03cb@ORACLE> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <007101bf5571$99e832a0$827e03cb@ORACLE> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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). -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message