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Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 18:27:56 -0800 (PST)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: "Michael A. Urban" <mds@usa.nai.net>
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Subject: Re: Setting up an SMTP host on FreeBSD
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On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Michael A. Urban wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions for setting up an SMTP host on a
> FreeBSD box?  I need to have it forward outgoing mail to my ISP. 

FreeBSD comes pre-wired for SMTP.  It should work regardless. Just make
sure you call your ISP once every 4 days and run this command:

sendmail -q

That will clear the mail queue out.  You'll probably get warnings every
four hours that your mail couldn't be sent, but you can ignore those. 

I did this all over the summer and had no problems sending mail.  I
receive mail on another host and used Pine & IMAP to read it.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major