On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 10:22:12PM +0100, Ulrich Grassberger wrote: > Hello, >
Hello, > i started with BASIC as a kid in the early eighties and installed OpenBSD > 5.6 on a laptop for me and my mother. Windows is elegant for many uses but > limited (by money). I am trying to use $ mail with a dial-up internet > connection, trying to connect with POP3 and SMTP to my and my mother's mail > accounts at remote servers. The people at [email protected] could not help > me. > > Users can send and receive mail locally. > > Out of the box four instances of smtpd were running, but after installing > Thunderbird, seven instances are. Why? > I'm not sure I understand what you're saying: $ ps auxwww |grep smtpd root 3813 0.0 0.0 1812 2104 ?? Is 23Dec14 0:00.13 smtpd: [priv] (smtpd) _smtpd 1399 0.0 0.0 1544 1852 ?? I 23Dec14 0:00.00 smtpd: klondike (smtpd) _smtpq 12972 0.0 0.0 2160 2792 ?? I 23Dec14 0:03.21 smtpd: queue (smtpd) _smtpd 14756 0.0 0.0 1800 2224 ?? I 23Dec14 0:00.29 smtpd: control (smtpd) _smtpd 2977 0.0 0.0 1832 2444 ?? I 23Dec14 0:00.51 smtpd: lookup (smtpd) _smtpd 31401 0.0 0.0 1484 1984 ?? I 23Dec14 0:00.33 smtpd: scheduler (smtpd) _smtpd 9364 0.0 0.0 1832 2956 ?? I 23Dec14 0:00.66 smtpd: pony express (smtpd) $ There are seven processes, and they are all created at startup, there is never only four. > In order to be able to use $ mail for sending mail to my remote mail accout, > i did this: > > # touch /etc/mail/secrets > # chmod 640 /etc/mail/secrets > # chown root:_smtpd /etc/mail/secrets > # echo "label [email protected]:password" > /etc/mail/secrets > # makemap /etc/mail/secrets > > *smtpd.conf*: > > listen on lo0 > table aliases db:/etc/mail/aliases.db > table secrets db:/etc/mail/secrets.db > accept for local alias <aliases> deliver to mbox > accept for any relay via tls+auth://[email protected]@smtp.versatel.de \ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is not correct, above you have declared: label [email protected]:password note that your key is "label", so the line should read: accept for any relay via tls+auth://[email protected] ^^^^^ > auth <secrets> > > > When I do $ mail -s test [email protected], then the mail is not > delivered: > > 554 MX does not exist > received: from localhost > from: Ulrich Grassberger ([email protected]) > > (I do not know how to insert text from the terminal into Thunderbird in > Unix.) > > I figure i need masquerading in order to change [email protected] to > [email protected], but smtpd does not have that yet. Does anyone have an > idea how to approach my goal? > you can setup an /etc/mail/mailname file, or change the machine hostname to versanet.de, both should work -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg -- You received this mail because you are subscribed to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send a mail to: [email protected]
