Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:23:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: William Lloyd <wlloyd@tolstoy.mpd.ca> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handbook additions. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.961128130932.9991E-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199611272037.PAA10951@tolstoy.mpd.ca>
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On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, William Lloyd wrote: > I have done some work moving information from the FAQ and integrating > it into the handbook. As well, I have written some basic stuff for > the mail section. Thanks! I have committed them with a few tweaks, and with a few reservations. I think some aspects of the mail document are confusing and/or misleading. > These are the major programs or components of an email exchange. > <sect2><heading>User program</heading> For consistent use of terminology, you should probably call these "User Agents". > <sect2><heading>POP Servers</heading> IMAP should be mentioned here as well. > <sect1><heading>Configure</heading> > <p>As your FreeBSD system comes "out of the box" you should be able to > send email to external hosts. The problem is no mail will be able to > get back to your host. This is not a problem if you are willing to > make sure you hand edit the automatic <tt> reply to address </tt> > every time you send a message. If a machine has a DNS entry and appropriate network connection, an out of the box FreeBSD configuration can send *and* receive mail just fine. What you address in this section is a special case of sending mail from machine A, but receiving mail on machine B through the use of DNS MX records. This may be a desirable setup in some situations, but is hardly a requirement for using email on FreeBSD, yet this section leads me to believe that it is required. What is needed is a description of what situations an out of the box configuration works fine in (eg: a full time network connection, a static IP number and a DNS A record for the machine.), and then some common alternates (sending and receiving through a POP/IMAP mail server). -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================
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