From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 17 13:20:59 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id NAA05279 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:20:59 -0700 Received: from server.keck.lmu.edu ([157.242.66.198]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id NAA05271 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:20:53 -0700 Received: from bsd1.keck.lmu.edu (bsd1.keck.lmu.edu [157.242.76.5]) by server.keck.lmu.edu (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA27923; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 21:28:10 GMT Received: (from tsai@localhost) by bsd1.keck.lmu.edu (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA00371; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:25:59 GMT Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 13:25:59 GMT From: Stephen Tsai Message-Id: <199508171325.NAA00371@bsd1.keck.lmu.edu> To: jan@bagend.atl.ga.us, tsai@server.keck.lmu.edu Subject: Re: MH 6.8.3 package problem! Cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, questions@freebsd.org Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> The only alternatives I am aware of are: >> >> 1) install sendmail The reason that I don't want to run sendmail on a local machine is that I want all the e-mail to be handled by the server mcchine of the network. So, this probably not a alternative for me. >> 2) write a program that pretends to be sendmail. this could be a short >> shell script that reads in a file and sends it to your smart host. >> 3) recompile mh >> I understand that you do not want to recompile mh, but it is very >> easy to do with the ports files. You can configure mh to do its >> own delivery, but you must recompile it to do so. I can recompile mh if it is really necessary and there is no other simple way to make the mh work properly on the client machines. >> 4) you *might* get mh to work with smail 2.5. it is very small and >> easy to configure. Since it's *might*. I would go for other alternatives. I will try to recompile the mh. Could you please tell me how to configure mh to do its own delivery? Thanks for your help. Yao-Wen Stephen Tsai 8/17/95