Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 14:57:42 -0500 From: Joel Dinel <dinjo@touchtunes.com> To: weiwuzhang@263.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: config mail client Message-ID: <20020322145742.A52883@sunder.touchtunes.com> In-Reply-To: <F244n4DVvm24TzmKYTg00021a4b@hotmail.com>; from weiwuzhang@hotmail.com on Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:50:00AM %2B0800 References: <F244n4DVvm24TzmKYTg00021a4b@hotmail.com>
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On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:50:00AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > But how to config my BSD system so > that when I send a mail using 'mail' it knows which smtp server to use and > which pop3 server to check for incoming mails? If it takes steps to do it ---end quoted text--- The 'mail' command will use the local MTA (Mail Transfert Agent) to send your mail. In this case, the default is Sendmail. To get sendmail to send its mail to your ISP's SMTP server, edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, and find this line : # "Smart" relay host (may be null) DS Modify the second line to read : DSyourISPmailserver.somedomain.com Restart sendmail with the command 'kill -HUP PID' where PID is the process ID of sendmail. You can find that out with the command 'ps caux | grep sendmail'. Sendmail will not fetch your POP3 mail. That's not its job. You'll need 'procmail' for that. It's in the ports tree. You can mail me if you need more info on ports tree, or configuring procmail. -- Joel Dinel System Administrator TouchTunes Digital Jukebox, Inc. GnuPG key : http://lysander.mine.nu/~kint/mykey.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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