Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:52:28 +0200 From: "GDB" <g-d-b@freegates.be> To: "Ben Smithurst" <ben@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Mark Ovens" <marko@freebsd.org>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: e-mail: howto? Message-ID: <000d01c00acf$6b8a2ee0$561223d4@gdb> References: <001001c00ab0$88a7e400$931023d4@gdb> <20000820173650.U58928@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk>
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I added the DS line. I installed cucipop. Then I started netscape. I noticed I can specify a POP and SMTP server in Netscape. I am wondering if it was really necessary to install cucipop. What do you think? But: I specified the SMTP and POP servers and sent a mail to myself: it works! Cool. (Would this be the last mail I send from Win98? :-) ) Thanks for the clear answer. ----- Original Message ----- From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: GDB <g-d-b@freegates.be> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 6:36 PM Subject: Re: e-mail: howto? > GDB wrote: > > > I want to use e-mail under FreeBSD 3.2. How can I do that? sendmail > > is running, but where do I have to specify my ISP POP and SMTP > > servers? What do I have to do to send and receive e-mail with, lets > > say, xfmail? > > Mark told you about fetchmail and stuff, but didn't mention the SMTP > stuff... To specify your ISP's SMTP server, and you're using Sendmail, > change the empty "DS" line in /etc/sendmail.cf to > > DSsmtp.yourisp.net > > replacing "smtp.yourisp.net" with the smarthost your ISP tells you to > use. (Alternatively you can build a new .cf file using the m4 configuration > mechanism. See /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf for all that stuff.) > > After that, mail clients like Mutt and Pine which call Sendmail > directly will just work, and you should tell other mail clients to use > "localhost" as the SMTP server. > > If you use a mail client which needs to collect mail using POP3 rather > than accessing your mail file (/var/mail/$USER) directly, you'll need to > install a POP3 server too. I recommend cucipop, which is in the ports > collection. > > If you have a PPP dialup connection you might like to look at the > /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup files which you can use to run "sendmail -q" and > "fetchmail" each time you go online. > > hope this helps. > > -- > Ben Smithurst / ben@FreeBSD.org / PGP: 0x99392F7D > FreeBSD Documentation Project / > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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