On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 08:02:08AM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: > On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> >However, sendmail is a very steep and tall learning curve. I'm coming > >from Debian (which no longer installes with 32 MB ram) so I'm used to > >exim. I know that exim is GPL. I'm wondering if there are other > >BSD-licensed MTAs. > > Hmmm, actually, I don't believe sendmail has a "steep and tall learning > curve". ;-) It's just that you don't grok it yet. > > You're almost there since you know you want to use a smarthost. For > example copy /usr/share/sendmail/cf/openbsd-localhost.mc to another > file /usr/share/sendmail/cf/BobFoo-localhost-SMART_HOST.mc, define > dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `MYMAINBOX-FQDN')dnl ,build a new .cf file, > BobFoo-localhost-SMART_HOST.cf . Move the new file to /etc/mail , add > sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/BobFoo-localhost-SMART_HOST.cf -bd > -q30m" > to /etc/rc.conf.local restart sendmail and VOILA! > > It's not hard at all and you will also get the satisfaction of leaning new > and wonderful SysAdmin skills. > It may not be hard at all, but its a lot more work than answering exim's config questions. I don't suppose there's a BSD sendmail configurator script that guides one through this? Yes, I know, everything I need to get sendmail working is alread on my system in the form of manpages, READMEs, other docs, and the stuff between my ears. The other issue is that I would _like_ to be able to set up sendmail since if I were installing OBSD on a raw system after some catastrophy, I may want access to mail before I've set up ports and installed something like exim. Lots to ponder. Thanks all, Doug.
