Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 09:42:02 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: philip payne <phil@sal-n-phil.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What the simplest way to do outgoing smtp? Message-ID: <20030603214202.GA53272@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <000f01c32a08$e0fce180$0164a8c0@colin2> References: <000f01c32a08$e0fce180$0164a8c0@colin2>
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On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 08:46:51PM +0100, philip payne wrote: > Hi, > > This is a pretty basic question so I don't mind if the answer is an RTFM > style link. ;-) > > I recently obtained some 3rd party POP3 mailboxes unrelated to my current > ISP for email to a new domain... unfortunately my ISP's smtp server doesn't > let me send any email addressed as anything other than it's own users, fair > enough. > > I use FreeBSD as a network gateway and IPFW device but I'm a bit of an SMTP > novice really. > > How and what can I configure to act as a sending SMTP server simply on > FreeBSD? The default FreeBSD installation alreay has sendmail running, and that's usually enough to handle outgoing mail. This means you can just configure your mail-client to use "localhost" as your SMTP server; problems may arise if the receiving SMTP servers have recipient checks on incoming IP-address (eg: the FreeBSD lists' SMTP servers). Give it a go and see what happens. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people"
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