From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 9 01:33:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F86016A4CE for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:33:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail27.cn4e.com (unknown [218.107.207.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 224CD43D1D for ; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:33:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zhangweiwu@realss.com) Received: from realss.com (unknown [218.85.102.221]) by mail27.cn4e.com (WorldPost) with ESMTP id C8E6381260BB; Mon, 9 Feb 2004 17:52:54 +0800 (CST) Message-ID: <402753D3.7070000@realss.com> Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 17:33:07 +0800 From: Zhang Weiwu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20040120 X-Accept-Language: zh-cn, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allan Bowhill References: <20040209043631.GA75515@kosmos.my.net> In-Reply-To: <20040209043631.GA75515@kosmos.my.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail to a smarthost? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2004 09:33:14 -0000 Allan Bowhill wrote: >On 0, Zhang Weiwu wrote: >:Hello. In my LAN the DNS server is my ADSL modem ... small device that >:cannot do MX type of address lookup. I wish to configure a fax server >:(FreeBSD 5.2 + Hylafax) in the LAN to send emails to a group of people upon >:receiving fax. The problem is hylafax fax server can only use sendmail to >:send fax notification, but sendmail can send out emails only when it knows >:receipiant's MX ip. >: >:The only way I can think of is to let sendmail send mails by using my ISP's >:smtp server (need login). But I read sendmail(8), I didn't find how to >:configure sendmail to do this, nor did I find such information on the >:handbook. I'm not familiar with sendmail config. >: >:I hope I'm clear:) What should I do now? Do you have something to suggest >:me to read? Thank you. >: > >Try reading Simon Barner's tutorial on setting up FreeBSD for workstations. > >http://home.leo.org/~barner/freebsd/articles/mailsetup/article.html > > Oh this article is really helpful, I'm reading it .. it is really long. But my situation is pertty typical; I believe many people are like me to rely on ISP's authenticated smtp server. Must things be so complicated for those people like me, as said in that article? Isn't there a replacement of sendmail to do simple mail transfer by just asking a smtp server to do everything? Thank you.