Hiya. I have a few noob questions about mail on OpenBSD. I'm not sure where to start so I'll blurt them out.
What is "mail"? In the past I have used: dmesg | mail -s "dmesg" my.acco...@gmail This get's me a copy of dmesg on gmail and allows me to forward it to the boffins. That's all fine. However, if I disable Sendmail (sendmail_flags=NO) the mail command does not work. Is mail a front end to sendmail? What is the connection between them? I considered that "mail" might be a shortcut to Sendmail but it doesn't appear to be from my understanding of mailer.conf. Further there are two separate man pages. Is it similar to the way syslogd (Sendmail) is different from logger (mail)? There are other types of mail program as well I think. Software that fetches mail from an external server. Software that acts as a client to Sendmail. Is that correct? As I understand it OpenSMTPD is a possible non-production replacement for Sendmail. Does OpenSMTPD require mail? An overview of how mail works on OpenBSD might help me with this. I want to understand the underlying concepts but to be more specific I want to understand how "messages" (e.g. system logging - daily insecurity output, etcetera) gets to my mailbox. Also what do I need to be able to send an occasional message out. So if explaining everything is difficult, how it affects those circumstances would be great. I'm looking forward to getting further along the path. Best wishes. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
