From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 20:00:09 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4C5E0107 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:00:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from bs1.fjl.org.uk (bs1.fjl.org.uk [84.45.41.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "bs1.fjl.org.uk", Issuer "bs1.fjl.org.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EE0FE12E8 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:00:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.1.35] (mux.fjl.org.uk [62.3.120.246]) (authenticated bits=0) by bs1.fjl.org.uk (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id t58Jxp4O097491 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2015 20:59:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from frank2@fjl.co.uk) Message-ID: <5575F437.5010702@fjl.co.uk> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:59:51 +0100 From: Frank Leonhardt User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: best options for a *WORKING* MTA References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2015 20:00:09 -0000 On 01/06/2015 17:48, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have tried every which way I can find in the handbook and/or on the net > to get a working mail server and the best I can do get the default sendmail > to answer on localhost only (postfix seems to be completely broken). > Where can I find a good *SIMPLE* set of instructions on how to set up a > working mail server to accept mail for my domain? > I've skimmed through this thread, and at the risk of getting mixed up in a long-running holy between MTAs, I have to say that sendmail may be old and clunky, but it chugs along and is standard; you need a reason to deviate from a standard and you haven't articulated one for your requriements. I'm surprised you're having difficult running it because over many years I've always found it to work "out of the box." Rather than going off with other MTAs, no one seems to be wondering why you're getting to it via the loopback interface not the external. Have you considered whether it is able to bind to the external address? For example, are you starting sendmail BEFORE the external address is configured? No address, nothing to bind to and they symptoms you describe. Whatever you problem, it's probably something trivial like this, because sendmail does, most definitely, work. Regards, Frank.