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Old 14th March 2013
shep shep is offline
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@gilles I started with the email section in AbsoluteBSD by Michael Lucus. He noted that sendmail is complex because the world is complex. He also said that he was proud that he could set it up but it was like boasting that you can crush a full can of beer on your forehead. OpenSMPTD looks to address a complex task with simplicity and elegance.

@jggimi I'm going to restate this to make sure I understand:

user********/var/mail/user***************Earthlink


mutt <--------------->mbox

*******************mbox--OpenSMTPD ---> smtpauth port 587

*******************mbox<-fetchmail--------mail port 110

Optionally

mutt + pop3 <---------------------------------- mail port 110
mutt + pop3 <-------->mbox

OpenSMTPD can also deliver to another local user's mbox
********************mbox-jsh ----OpenSMTPD --->|
********************mbox-root<---------------------
OpenSMTPD needs aDNS server to function to outside the LAN eg communicate with
other full fledge mail servers like earthlink gmail, comcast, hotmail etc.
It looks like I need to read more on setting up DynDNS

Last edited by shep; 14th March 2013 at 02:54 PM. Reason: edit Added additional OpenSMTPD illustrations + DynDNS
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