Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 21:19:49 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Cameron Haegle <chaegle@mediaone.net> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Sending e-mail Message-ID: <20010720211506.I768-100000@localhost.de> In-Reply-To: <000c01c1114f$d525fe10$420fbf8f@hlc02>
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On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, Cameron Haegle wrote: > What I want to do is be able to send e-mail from the console. This can easily be done. Type # mail user@provider.com and you will start a very simple mail-client. A more elaborated client would be pine (or mutt). Uli. > > The basic purpose for this is to be able have a script that compares the currently DHCP assigned IP address of an interface. If the address is different from the previously configured address, an e-mail message will get sent to me at work with the new address. > > Because this system is at home, connected to my cable modem, I do not have a permanent IP, nor do I have a registered domain name for my system. > > Whenever I try to send an e-mail using snedmail I eventually get a message stating the following: (reason: 501 5.1.8 root@myhostname.myisps.name .. Sender domain must exist). > > Is there some configuration that I must do to sendmail to overcome this, or is there another console-based e-mail client that I can use for this purpose? > > Regards, > Cameron > *--------------------------------------* | www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de | | Wuppertal - Germany | *--------------------------------------* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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