Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 17:36:50 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@FreeBSD.org> To: GDB <g-d-b@freegates.be> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: e-mail: howto? Message-ID: <20000820173650.U58928@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <001001c00ab0$88a7e400$931023d4@gdb> References: <001001c00ab0$88a7e400$931023d4@gdb>
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GDB wrote: > I want to use e-mail under FreeBSD 3.2. How can I do that? sendmail > is running, but where do I have to specify my ISP POP and SMTP > servers? What do I have to do to send and receive e-mail with, lets > say, xfmail? Mark told you about fetchmail and stuff, but didn't mention the SMTP stuff... To specify your ISP's SMTP server, and you're using Sendmail, change the empty "DS" line in /etc/sendmail.cf to DSsmtp.yourisp.net replacing "smtp.yourisp.net" with the smarthost your ISP tells you to use. (Alternatively you can build a new .cf file using the m4 configuration mechanism. See /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/cf for all that stuff.) After that, mail clients like Mutt and Pine which call Sendmail directly will just work, and you should tell other mail clients to use "localhost" as the SMTP server. If you use a mail client which needs to collect mail using POP3 rather than accessing your mail file (/var/mail/$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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