Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 08:45:50 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: mayuresh@kathe.in Cc: Olivier <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [commercial] sendmail setup request Message-ID: <20180709084550.00af3854.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <bab0e663a9a10633c1c6d549ab1dbe20@kathe.in> References: <wu7h8l90xxm.fsf@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> <bab0e663a9a10633c1c6d549ab1dbe20@kathe.in>
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On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 06:32:50 +0000, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On 2018-07-09 05:40 AM, Olivier wrote: > > Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> 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. That doesn't imply you have to run your own mail _server_. You can construct a toolset to remotely manipulate the messages stored at your registrar / provider and put that on a virtual server (or a server of your own) to connect to. See my previous message for which tools can be used. > 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. You probably don't need a mail server. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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