From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jul 9 05:20:29 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A0210429A0; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 05:20:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayuresh@kathe.in) Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net (relay11.mail.gandi.net [217.70.178.231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CEB680F34; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 05:20:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayuresh@kathe.in) Received: from webmail.gandi.net (unknown [10.200.201.1]) (Authenticated sender: mayuresh@kathe.in) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id EC80B10000A; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 05:20:18 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:20:18 +0000 From: Mayuresh Kathe To: Polytropon Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [commercial] sendmail setup request Reply-To: mayuresh@kathe.in Mail-Reply-To: mayuresh@kathe.in In-Reply-To: <20180708232314.204d7f12.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20180708232314.204d7f12.freebsd@edvax.de> Message-ID: <6e21b74531c2b6ca7ca89cfc37add6a2@kathe.in> X-Sender: mayuresh@kathe.in User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.1.2 X-Spam-Level: X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:20:29 -0000 On 2018-07-08 09:23 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2018 14:22:14 +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: >> i own a domain (kathe.in) for which email services are provided by the >> domain registrar itself. email services include imap, smtp and >> webmail. >> >> the problem is that i lean more towards using mailx under bsd and at >> the same time also wish to have my mails stored online (or rather >> non-locally). >> >> i might be wrong, but i have concluded that the best and also the most >> economical solution would be to go for either rootbsd or digitalocean >> using a freebsd instance and run sendmail to provide email services in >> and out of the instance. >> >> and now comes the real bummer, i don't have any idea about how to >> setup >> sendmail to allow the above. > > I don't want to sound impolite, but did you ask yourself if > you're asking the right question here? Maybe I didn't fully > understand your goals, so allow me to ask: > > 1. Do you want to stay with your domain provider as the "keeper > of the mail" and just want to be able to use xmail instead > of a (usually annoying) webmailer? > > 2. Are you prepared to run your own mail infrastructure? Do > you want to provide the "all and everything" yourself, > usually POP3 + SMTP + IMAP + Webmail? > [snip] my goals are very basic and hence quite simple. i should be able to log into the freebsd instance as my username which would be the same as my email address (mayuresh@kathe.in) and use mailx to go through my emails. i don't need imap nor webmail. i know it must be a simple sendmail setup, but frankly, i'm not capable enough to understand the in-and-out of sendmail to be able to configure it to my requirement. thanks polytropon, and yes, you were not at all impolite. :-)