Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 21:04:58 +0000 From: Aleksandar Simic <alex@frustum.clara.co.uk> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dial-up Sendmail Message-ID: <19991217210458.A305@frustum.clara.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199912160403.XAA81491@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> References: <19991211153259.A1534@frustum.clara.co.uk> <199912160403.XAA81491@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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"Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> wrote : > Aleksandar Simic wrote, > > In FreeBSD's FAQ under System Administration section there is an > > answer to how to set up Sendmail to relay mail if a user has a dial-up > > connection with an dynamically assigned IP number. > > > > A user is advised to do the following: > > > > # cd /usr/src > > # tar -xvzf /cdrom/dists/src/ssmailcf.aa > > > > in order to ensure that she/he has the required sources. > > > > After checking all the four CDs of 3.3 release I wasn't able to find > > the /cdrom/dists/src/ssmailcf.aa file. > > > > Since those sources don't exist I can't create ".mc" file and turn it > > into "/etc/sendmail.cf"file. > > > > Am I doing something very wrong or is the information in the FAQ out > > of date ? > > > > Thank you for your time. > > Sorry for the delay on this. I put this mail aside and never got to > looking it up until now. That is not a problem, I am glad you replied. > There is no 'ssmailcf' set of source files on my old 3.2R CDs > either. However, you can find the sources and install them with the > first CD, > > # cd /cdrom/src > # cat scontrib.?? | tar xzf - -C /usr/src contrib/sendmail > > If you want to put them somewhere else change the '/usr/src' to > whatever directory you'd like. > > Might want to submit a doc PR about that FAQ item. I wouldn't know how to do it. What would be the proper channels ? Thank you. -Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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