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"Post your sendmail SMART_HOST usage and guide if possible"
I had one working back a few years ago... the ISP changed hands (it was the dialup era). I've guides saved as .htm, several books with a page or two, but meanwhile, given incompleteness as to the entire picture, not to mention ease of use, maybe someone or two ( from here, FreeBSD specific) can by posting relevant information(s) save one (myself to start) hours and hours of time.
For instance, I recently purchased a 'small mailbox'. The guide to set it up with sendmail is nowhere to be found, and the one for Thunderbird is for the Windows dialogs and are not useful for FreeBSD's Thunderbird... without a whole lot of experimentation. And it appears the company also changed hands, (as well as the dialup referenced above), so the staffing dedicated to resolving the issue is apparently not in the budget, not being Wiindows/Mac/Android centric. Not that it is urgent in the webmail era, but still... Sorry to report I am unable to post anything. I've at present 31 .htm in /etc/mail waiting for a clue as to which way to proceed next... and am out of time (for this year maybe)... /edit/ Seems like the below might work for sendmail... untested as of yet http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...mail-on-ubuntu
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FreeBSD 13-STABLE Last edited by jb_daefo; 15th January 2016 at 01:26 AM. Reason: found a sendmail discussion relevant |
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Not to go off-topic, but it was suggested that redhat and/or CentOS had good documentation, with a link, in the FreeBSD forums. A search on that link for Smart_Host turned up three pages of solutions... it turns out that a subscription is required to read the solutions. Maybe someone would know if said subscription is worth the cost, its cost, etc...
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I'm not clear on why sendmail is a required MTA, and wonder why you are not implementing an alternative. Any functional alternative. Based on your comments in this thread and the feedback you received in your other thread on the same subject...
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listen on lo0 table aliases file:/etc/mail/aliases table secrets file:/etc/mail/secrets accept for local alias <aliases> deliver to mbox accept for any relay via tls+auth://label@smtp.example.com \ auth <secrets> |
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I was about to delete the second post ( my ignorance was lessened by another web search since I posted it ) when I read your third post. It puts into place another piece of the puzzle (an smtp...com to relay to is preferred ).
So now instead of 31 .htm saved, I've about 40 .htm saved... and more chance of success with making sendmails's Smart Host working. Or using openSMTPd, or ssmpt, or postfix... eventually. OTOH another alternative would have been to just count on buying more books... then writing the answers into the thread when/if I've more time... Again, thanks for the reply. /edit/ I updated the first post with an informative link.... /edit/
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FreeBSD 13-STABLE Last edited by jb_daefo; 15th January 2016 at 01:26 AM. Reason: Found a stackoverflow smarthost discussion |
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Okay, next question...
Having EVEN-MORE .htm saved (mc_editing-then-cf_howto-REF.htm)(1) for example, ... What if anyone knows, is the "flowchart" between... ..... freebsd.cf freebsd.submit.cf sendmail.cf [hostnameasinRC-CONF].cf [hostnameasinRC-CONF].submit.cf .... [hostnameasinRC-CONF].mc freebsd.submit.mc freebsd.mc [hostnameasinRC-CONF].submit.mc .... Particularly in regards to "editing an .mc file for SMART_HOST" then "make all install restart"... ........................... The linux guides mostly mention changes to the .mc file... but WHICH mc file???? It seems FreeBSD is missing an 'extra' bit of documentation, or something critical to managing a FreeBSD sendmail installation I am not aware of by ignorance... (1) from linux.com I think... searching on 'sendmail...' ................ Bonus Points for making *this* post unneccesary by updating the handbook...
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Each .mc file is compiled into a configuration file usable by sendmail. (The editable .mc files are nearly as unreadable to humans as the resulting .cf files, but sendmail cannot read .mc files directly.)
I don't know what FreeBSD has, but OpenBSD had a selection of distinct, separate .mc template files. You would pick one to use, and then adapt to your needs, then make(1) a single .cf file from it for use with sendmail. Sendmail is one of those applications which has both an open-source community that supports the application and a commercial company that offers commercial products and commercial support. As you seem to be locked into sendmail, please consider engaging one, or the other. I have not used sendmail in many years, and hated its insane provisioning structure when I was a user. Unfortunately I cannot come to your rescue, as I don't use the software and have never used your OS, and what little I've told you about sendmail hasn't seemed to address your needs, or get you to move to something else. Anything else. Last edited by jggimi; 15th January 2016 at 05:24 PM. Reason: clarity |
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See https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mail.html for a detailed description of sendmail and how to run it with FreeBSD
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sendmail SMART_HOST problem...
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