From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Nov 28 10:24:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-doc Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA07591 for doc-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:24:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (fallout.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA07586 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:24:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by fallout.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17576; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:23:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 13:23:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber To: William Lloyd cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: handbook additions. In-Reply-To: <199611272037.PAA10951@tolstoy.mpd.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-doc@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. > User program For consistent use of terminology, you should probably call these "User Agents". > POP Servers IMAP should be mentioned here as well. > Configure >

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 reply to address > 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 ================