Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:48:36 -0700 From: "Francis J. Bruening" <francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com> To: "freebsd" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: sendmail / fetchmail config under 3.3?!? Looking for pointers Message-ID: <NDBBKJIFGLEEKMALCMJMOEONCBAA.francis.j.bruening@bigfoot.com>
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Hi, Just installed 3.3 last weekend, and have been chipping away at getting things configured just so. I'm new to FBSD, and am not a unix guru, so sorry if this questions seems somewhat pedantic. 1) WRT mail: I have a LAN connection to an ISP (@home) accessable through POP3, sending using SMTP. I want to be able to send / recieve e-mail. digging around it seems the easiest way to do that is to use fetchmail / sendmail. (Someone please let me know if there is a better way) I plan on using Mutt as my mail client. I installed fetchmail (used the port, very slick! I'm still impressed with how well ports work). Now I try to debug fetchmail, and I get the following messages: ... lots of "octet" messages about each file in my POP3 mailbox ... fetchmail> SMTP connect to localhost failed fetchmail> SMTP transaction error while fetching fetchmail> error 10?!? (if I remember correctly) Do I have sendmail configured incorrectly? I started to dig through the doc(s) on sendmail, and am horrifed (OK, not really) at the complexity of it. I never configured sendmail when I installed, do I need to do so now? If so, is there something like sendmailconf? Can someone point me to a quick and easy way to configure it to meet my humble needs (use my system as a workstation, without lots of fancy options for SPAM filtering etc?) I just need to connect to my ISP mailbox using POP3, and send mail through my ISP mailer... Any help is much appreciated. Once I get mail working, I won't need to boot back into Windows to use mail.. thanks greatly! Regards, Francis To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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