Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:48:00 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Help with sending a PR Message-ID: <19990208164800.A13705@scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com> References: <36BC8418.F90E22AA@uk.radan.com> <xzp3e4jl5ay.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <36BCFCE6.2A48575A@uk.radan.com> <19990207151411.A86778@freebie.lemis.com> <36BE1A19.E21D508D@uk.radan.com>
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Mark Ovens wrote: > Now all I've got to do is figure out how to make sendmail send my mail > (you'll notice from the header that I sent this message with Netscape). > I've looked at the manpage, the handbook, FAQ, and The Book but they > haven't really helped, they seem more to do with receiving mail. Is > there a good guide to setting up sendmail to _send_ mail using a dial-up > connection? Something like the mutt manual > (/usr/local/share/doc/mutt/manual.html)? Here's the .mc file I have.. divert(0) VERSIONID(`') OSTYPE(bsd4.4) FEATURE(nouucp) FEATURE(nocanonify) FEATURE(accept_unresolvable_domains) DOMAIN(scientia.demon.co.uk) define(`SMTP_MAILER_FLAGS', `e') define(`ESMTP_MAILER_FLAGS', `e') define(`confCON_EXPENSIVE', `True') define(`confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN', 50) MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) The primary thing here is that is marks the SMTP and ESMTP mailers as expensive, and confCON_EXPENSIVE stops it trying to deliver to those straight away. When you do go online, use `sendmail -q'. I don't know how well that would work, since I use Exim, though in a couple of tests it seemed to work about right. I personally prefer Exim to sendmail, and you may find it worth a look (/usr/ports/mail/exim). If you decide to use that you'll find the exim-users list (information at www.exim.org) very helpful in general. > One last thing. I still haven't learned all the keystrokes in mutt yet > and sometimes use the wrong one, e.g. ``f'' to move to the next page (as > in vi). However as this means ``forward'' I get a ``To: '' prompt. How > do I cancel it? ESC and Ctrl-D don't work, Ctrl-C does but asks ``Exit > mutt?'' with ``y'' as the default answer. What is the correct key to > cancel a command? If you get a ``To:'' prompt like that, pressing return without entering anything will cancel it. That probably works in other places. -- Ben Smithurst ben@scientia.demon.co.uk send a blank message to ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk for PGP key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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