On 2007-06-11 09:26, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I've used sendmail for a dozen years--largely by hit or
miss and following others' examples' let me add my two cents'.
A couple years ago I bought a (used) copy of SENDMAIL (by
O'Reilly, whose books are usually ++outstanding). I
On 2007-06-10 21:25, Bjorn Boulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doug, Mats
Your advice is on the money; thanks.
I see this:
Jun 10 05:43:40 jake sendmail[15068]: l5AAhekD015068:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=oracle
(1004/1005),
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=30062,
Bjorn Boulder wrote:
Here is what I want:
1. I want to send mail
2. I don't want to receive mail from the outside
3. I do want to receive mail from the box itself.
The default Sendmail configuration on FreeBSD should be
sufficient for what you want to do. You just need to start Sendmail the
People,
I got sendmail working to send mail.
I started with this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=bsd+sendmail+configuration
From there I found 2 excellent links which answered
all my questions:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 10:17:45PM -0700, Bjorn Boulder wrote:
Well I checked this file:
ll /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 183289 Nov 4 2004
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
It's about 50 pages long.
I'm worried that I'd miss something if I try to
understand
Bjorn Boulder wrote:
Your tip along with that given by Mats suggests that
I need to learn about /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
Directly building editing the .cf file has been considered poor practice for
many years now. Unless you're really masochistic, you just put some simple options
in the .mc
On 6/10/07, Bjorn Boulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People,
I need help with sendmail on my FreeBSD box running:
FreeBSD 5.3
Specifically, I need help using sendmail to send mail.
I inherited this FreeBSD box from a guy who left for
another gig.
The box appears to be stable. It's been up
On 6/10/07, Bjorn Boulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People,
I need help with sendmail on my FreeBSD box running:
FreeBSD 5.3
Specifically, I need help using sendmail to send mail.
I inherited this FreeBSD box from a guy who left for
another gig.
The box appears to be stable. It's been up
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 02:13:02PM -0700, Bjorn Boulder wrote:
People,
I need help with sendmail on my FreeBSD box running:
FreeBSD 5.3
Specifically, I need help using sendmail to send mail.
I inherited this FreeBSD box from a guy who left for
another gig.
The box appears to be
Doug, Mats
Your advice is on the money; thanks.
I see this:
Jun 10 05:43:40 jake sendmail[15068]: l5AAhekD015068:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=oracle
(1004/1005),
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=30062,
relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=4.0.0,
stat=Deferred: Connection
refused
On Jun 10, 2007, at 21:25, Bjorn Boulder wrote:
Doug, Mats
Your advice is on the money; thanks.
I see this:
Jun 10 05:43:40 jake sendmail[15068]: l5AAhekD015068:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=oracle
(1004/1005),
delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay,
pri=30062,
relay=[127.0.0.1]
ok,
I'll look at that readme.
And
I nosed around on the box for clues about sendmail.cf
It looks like the previous sysadmin ignored
sendmail.cf
I see this:
bash jake oracle /etc/mail 14 $ pwd
/etc/mail
bash jake oracle /etc/mail 15 $
bash jake oracle /etc/mail 15 $
bash jake oracle
Well I checked this file:
ll /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 183289 Nov 4 2004
/usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
It's about 50 pages long.
I'm worried that I'd miss something if I try to
understand all of it.
I need something more dumbed down.
Here is what I want:
1. I
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