From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jul 9 06:33:00 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 3B65E10234EC; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 06:33:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayuresh@kathe.in) Received: from relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (relay5-d.mail.gandi.net [217.70.183.197]) (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 6680B84194; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 06:32:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mayuresh@kathe.in) Received: from webmail.gandi.net (unknown [10.200.201.4]) (Authenticated sender: mayuresh@kathe.in) by relay5-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C33721C000E; Mon, 9 Jul 2018 06:32:50 +0000 (UTC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2018 06:32:50 +0000 From: Mayuresh Kathe To: Olivier Cc: freebsd@edvax.de, 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: References: Message-ID: 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 06:33:00 -0000 On 2018-07-09 05:40 AM, Olivier wrote: > 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 :) my needs are indeed limited to what i have described, on reading it, you would notice that i do not wish to have my mails be stored locally. i want to have the mails on a server instance so that i can access them from a machine other than mine via ssh. i know that setting up a complete mail system would be a lot of work, and that's why i have tagged my emails with the "commercial" tag as well as mentioned in my first mail in this thread that i wouldn't mind paying the fees required by someone who can build me that sendmail configuration.