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Old 5th October 2008
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What steps do I need to take in order to get sendmail working on my webserver? I want to send and recive email from my workstation and I've got a domainname and a static ip address.

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Not much: indeed it should be working out-of-the-box. When you try, what fails?

(edit: you may want to read my post Using mail.... Some of the masquerades in there may make things neater, but should not be required.)
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From the afterboot man page
Code:
   Sendmail
     OpenBSD ships with a default /etc/mail/localhost.cf file that will work
     for simple installations; it was generated from openbsd-localhost.mc in
     /usr/share/sendmail/cf.  Please see /usr/share/sendmail/README and
     /usr/share/doc/smm/08.sendmailop/op.me for information on generating your
     own sendmail configuration files.  For the default installation, sendmail
     is configured to only accept connections from the local host and to not
     accept connections on any external interfaces.  This makes it possible to
     send mail locally, but not receive mail from remote servers, which is
     ideal if you have one central incoming mail machine and several clients.
     To cause sendmail to accept external network connections, modify the
     sendmail_flags variable in /etc/rc.conf.local to use the
     /etc/mail/sendmail.cf file in accordance with the comments therein. This
     file was generated from openbsd-proto.mc.

     Note that sendmail now also listens on port 587 by default.  This is to
     implement the RFC 2476 message submission protocol.  You may disable this
     via the no_default_msa option in your sendmail .mc file.  See
     /usr/share/sendmail/README for more information.
From "/etc/rc.conf"
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# For normal use: "-L sm-mta -bd -q30m", and note there is a cron job
sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/localhost.cf -bd -q30m"
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Old 12th October 2008
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Hi all,

What steps do I need to take in order to get sendmail working on my webserver? I want to send and recive email from my workstation and I've got a domainname and a static ip address.

Thanks in advance
To receive email.
You will also need to make sure you have an MX record in place..

If not, once you get Sendmail (I use Postfix--much easier IMHO)
configured you will be able to send email but not receive it unless
you have an MX record in place..

It would help us if we knew what your final goal was..

hth
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I use Postfix--much easier IMHO
I agree 100% on that. I don't know why Sendmail is even maintained or shipped anymore. Postfix is saner and easier. Postfix and Exim now dominate the non-MS MTA market, for good reason.
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Sendmail is an acquired taste. Have been using it since < 8.8. Wizardry with m4 files is mandatory, but it's _very_ versatile. Learning curve may be quite steep, but that doesn't make it bad ..
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Sendmail is an acquired taste.
Right, and so is cyanide.
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Hey! Don't make fun of cyanide until you've tried it. You never hear complaints from those who have actually tried it, have you?
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Sendmail is an acquired taste. Have been using it since < 8.8. Wizardry with m4 files is mandatory, but it's _very_ versatile.
Someone should not have to be a wizard with some obscure language (m4) which is only used in one particular application (sendmail) to be able to configure an ordinary mail server. That's why sendmail is not so widely used anymore. No wizardry is needed for Postfix.
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You all sound like Ubuntu users now .. "BSD is too hard!"
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Here is a page that really helped me with sendmail:
http://www.sacrideo.us/Sacrificum_De...il_openbsd.txt

This may not help the OP
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Ironically, the first ever project in my Unix life was Sendmail configuration. It was a project at school in Unix subject. In this project, we were acting like "hosting provider", and required to install, config, secure and maintain dns, mail, file and web services.

At that time, I didnt know Sendmail is that hard

Sounds like I did a good job, havent got any customer's complaint. Oh wait, who is my customer?
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