[NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread MatzeLoCal
Hei :)

I've gotta question, which may seem very dumb for some of you, but I really
need to know.

How do I set up mail in FreeBSD that it uses an external mail-server? In my
case I need to send the messages that will send my cron and some apps. But
our Systemadministrator will does not allow me to use the FreeBSD with sendmail
as server, he says that I have to use our M$ Exchange as mail server.

Thank you very much in advance and sorry for the dumb question.


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Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread Konrad Heuer

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I've gotta question, which may seem very dumb for some of you, but I really
 need to know.

 How do I set up mail in FreeBSD that it uses an external mail-server? In my
 case I need to send the messages that will send my cron and some apps. But
 our Systemadministrator will does not allow me to use the FreeBSD with sendmail
 as server, he says that I have to use our M$ Exchange as mail server.

 Thank you very much in advance and sorry for the dumb question.

Put the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:

sendmail_enable=NO
sendmail_submit_enable=YES

FreeBSD will then run a sendmail daemon listening on the loopback
interface for mail submission only. This sendmail process will not be
visible from external hosts and will not receive any mail.

Regards

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Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread MatzeLoCal
 
 On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Put the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:
 
 sendmail_enable=NO
 sendmail_submit_enable=YES
 
 FreeBSD will then run a sendmail daemon listening on the loopback
 interface for mail submission only. This sendmail process will not be
 visible from external hosts and will not receive any mail.

Thx, 
but this does not work. I've already tried it. Or can I tell sendmail to use
an SMTP-server? 



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Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread Konrad Heuer

On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

  Put the following lines in /etc/rc.conf:
 
  sendmail_enable=NO
  sendmail_submit_enable=YES
 
  FreeBSD will then run a sendmail daemon listening on the loopback
  interface for mail submission only. This sendmail process will not be
  visible from external hosts and will not receive any mail.

 Thx,
 but this does not work. I've already tried it. Or can I tell sendmail to use
 an SMTP-server?

You can try to create the file /etc/mail/mailertable to specify which stmp
server to use for your domain, put a line in there that looks like:

example.org  192.168.1.25

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Re: [NEWBIE] Using external SMTP-Server for mail

2003-07-31 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 08:19:09AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
 How do I set up mail in FreeBSD that it uses an external mail-server? In my
 case I need to send the messages that will send my cron and some apps. But
 our Systemadministrator will does not allow me to use the FreeBSD with sendmail
 as server, he says that I have to use our M$ Exchange as mail server.

If you want to get FreeBSD to forward your email to the MS-Exchange
server, you have to:

1. make sure sendmail is running. (ie remove sendmail_* lines from
   /etc/rc.conf)
2. # cd /etc/mail
3. # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
4. edit `hostname`.mc and uncomment the following line:

define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server')

5. replace `your.isp.mail.server' with your Exchange server.
6. # make
7. # make install
8. # sh /etc/rc.sendmail restart

This will configure sendmail to send all non-local mail to the
Exchange Server for further processing (eg: to send email to the 'Net).

If you want to suck your email from the Exchange server, you'll have
to install something like ports/mail/fetchmail.

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