----- Original Message ----- From: "KizerSoze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 10:17 PM Subject: Default Sendmail install with FreeBSD
> I've been addressing an issue where I'm trying to have all my mail from my > root account forwarded to my home email address. The BSD box does not have > a FQDN and when trying to send any mail to my home accounts the mail relay > owned by those accounts will not accept them, assumingly because the from > address does not have a real domain name, thus the relay drops the mail as > spam. > > I know that sendmail can be configured to change the from addresses of > emails before they are sent and I'd like to accomplish this, and, have found > some sufficient documentation here. > http://www.sendmail.org/faq/section3.html#3.2 > > But, after reading through the documentation I am unable to locate any > sendmail.mc file on my system. My system was not a bare 4.7 install, but > has been updated through the 4.x tree. I'm by no means an expert with > Sendmail and have not been able to find any answers to the following > questions. > > 1) Where am I suppose to find the sendmail.mc file? > You won't. You'll find 'freebsd.mc' and, if you've ever run 'make' in /etc/mail, you should see a *.mc where * is your hostname. The *.mc is the one you're concerned with.... > 2) Does FreeBSD come with a partial install of sendmail, and if so is this > why I'm not seeing the sendmail.mc file, and if thats the case do I need to > re-install sendmail through the port tree? > /stand/sysinstall gives you the option to run Sendmail during the install process...if you tell it you want to run Sendmail, it will put sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. > 3) Has anyone else here accomplished what I'm trying to do here, and if so, > what were your steps to success? > One of the things everyone should do, or at least consider, is editing /etc/mail/aliases shortly after setting up FBSD. Several of the daemons use the MTA (usually Sendmail) to notify the system owner/administrator of 'important' issues. After editing the file, 'make' must be run to update sendmail's configuration. As I mentioned above, .mc and .cf files adapted for your host will be created and installed at this time. > Thanks in advance, > > Ed > HTH, Kevin Kinsey To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message