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On Fri, April 27, 2007 3:25 pm, Dan Cowsill wrote: |
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> So what I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could |
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> set up sendmail to deliver mail for me... |
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I really wouldn't recommend using Sendmail, especially not for just |
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sending mail and not receiving mail. So my recommendation is that you |
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unmerge sendmail, and then merge ssmtp. This is a very simple MTA and is |
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great if you just want to send mail. It still offers the standard UNIX |
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sendmail script, except that it is a wrapper. So: |
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1) Umerge sendmail. |
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2) Emerge ssmtp |
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3) Edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and set the mailhub variable to your ISP's |
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SMTP server. For example, I have the line: |
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mailhub=smtp-server.carolina.rr.com |
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for one of my machines. Hope this helps! |
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Randy Barlow |
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