From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Sep 24 10:27:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from heorot.1nova.com (sub24-23.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.24.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB8C237B424 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 10:27:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A29ED328C; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by heorot.1nova.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 878C5328B; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:51:11 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:51:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Rick Hamell To: John Murphy Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Beyond SMTP In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Please ask questions in -questions, that is what is for. :) They are willing to answer any questions at all, even those we perceive as newbish questions. Newbies is for finding the good resources, general chatting about newbie related issues, and telling people about your latest success. You might want to check out these links also: www.freebsddiary.org www.mostgraveconcern.com And for Sendmail www.sendmail.org (They also have mailing lists that could help you with this problem too.) Rick On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, John Murphy wrote: > I'm asking here because I need to know what I need, and there's no great > urgency. Also, please CC me because I'm not able to subscribe at present. > > Here in the uk, one has to shop around and change ISP frequently to get > cheap, or un-metered dial-up access. Data speed is usually quite good, > but services usually poor. It's often possible to retrieve e-mail from > a previous 'provider' but relaying is denied for outgoing SMTP. > > I may gain access to a connection, but no services, temporarily for free. > > So what I realty need is, I presume, an SMTP server on my Gateway, or will > sendmail perform this task somehow. I fear there are large gaps in my > knowledge in this area. Links to any tutorial pages would help. > > I looked at Zmailer, but feel it would get bored with so little to do. > This is a one man LAN. :) > > Also, I'll need a free to use DNS lookup IP number or two. Recommendations? > > Thank you, > John. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message