From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jul 9 05:40:26 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 0C03910449A2; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 05:40:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) (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 67A3481D1A; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 05:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id A58BB61F82; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:40:10 +0700 (+07) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=cs.ait.ac.th; h= content-type:content-type:mime-version:message-id:date:date :in-reply-to:subject:subject:from:from:received:received :received; s=selector1; t=1531114810; x=1532929211; bh=K809XEqef +EgOq0Tj2RAXy8RW6QEHpLnTBZ7ATrgj8E=; b=Ouo7ZAzHNOasOrIrGltqAtYrJ OEAi7GtVZcfu/Os6xx9vaq4swL5W7yBhw16T/r5hLyX9Q+oQEahhNGUqL7JXDOBX RMD9llkhRaYEPUGgyeLIkQ6ma/58UZGkmZBkGWxde0yXbEQ8MwwKdC81x0diHWcU or6m/I0op0ySPKbloI= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at cs.ait.ac.th Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id qp1bJCTUaEbo; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:40:10 +0700 (+07) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E6E561F81; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:40:09 +0700 (+07) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w695e5hr048349; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 12:40:05 +0700 (ICT) (envelope-from on@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th) From: Olivier To: mayuresh@kathe.in Cc: freebsd@edvax.de, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [commercial] sendmail setup request In-Reply-To: <6e21b74531c2b6ca7ca89cfc37add6a2@kathe.in> (message from Mayuresh Kathe on Mon, 09 Jul 2018 05:20:18 +0000) Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 12:40:05 +0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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 05:40:26 -0000 Mayuresh Kathe writes: > 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. If your needs are really limited to what you describe, you may consider using fetchmail to get the mail from your current mail server (at your registrar). Fetchmail should dump your mail on your FreeBSD system and you will be able to use mailx. That way, you avoid all the problems of setting up a machine intended to receive mail. The configuration to send mail from your FreeBSD/mailx machine should be quite simple (just a few lines to tell sendmail to push your outgoing mail to the mail server at your registrar). If you really inted to set-up your onw complete mail system, goodluck, because it is a lot of work to do :) Good luck, Olivier > > thanks polytropon, and yes, you were not at all impolite. :-) > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > --