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sendmail SMART_HOST?
Reading /usr/src/contrib/sendmail (several READMEs...)
and /usr/share/doc/.../books/handbook/sendmail.html and searching the forums did not definitively answer... I seem to recall some early FreeBSD books gave precise instructions on revising the /etc/mail file(s) to include a SMART_HOST... then one could use /usr/ports/net/sendemail (etc) to send from ones computer to elsewhere. [ the SMART_HOST I initially configured switched URLs I think which made it obsolete...] [ spent a long while reading linux posts/threads about the issue without freebsd-specific information...] It seems with the advent of webmail, it would be advantageous to have documentation something along the line of... an /etc/mail/UPDATING that included, say, the precise method of the various .cf .mc ... hostname in rc.conf... instructions for a newbie to set a smart host and the subsequent commands and some possible testing of sending mail out to the web from the command line, given the preponderance of email hosts VS earlier times... Not that I've any need of it soon, but seems to be a missing part of an ideal initial configuration of FreeBSD that may optimally include more steps than the past (v4 v5) default ones... Beyond my expertise at the moment. Just wondering if anyone else is expert enough at sendmail to write something up. Hesitant also to switch to postfix, because while its SMART_HOST may be easier, I've always had sendmail locally to send cron messages, mail RE periodic runs, etc UNLESS something other than sendmail actually does that mail. Hardly pay attention to system email... indeed just learned this year that mail/alpine and mail/exmh2 can read root's mail (mbox)... despite having had them installed for years...
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Hmmm.
Some progress for the original post... besides the mc > cf that I just saved this thread for... A google search ' insite:bsdnexus.com sendmail' or something, ( besides a courier-sourceforge long list of maildrop q/a... ) ... is the __________________________________________________ ______________ www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/Sendmail.html ... __________________________________________________ ______________ ^^^^ that page... ... ... 1... with the addition of a SMART_HOST howto, curiously absent from that page... 1a... could be a linux > (open,net,Free) BSD Sendmail howto page. Appears almost complete from here... 1b... as an aside, it has a roster of sendmail books (sendmail, sendmail cookbook...) at the bottom (5 sendmail, 2 spam prevention IIRC)... one or two of which I have stored away somewhere... So if nothing much more comes of this thread, that page may be of use to FreeBSD etc mail administrators, some of which may opt to update its information into the handbook if it is not already there...
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