On 15/06/2010, Robert C Wittig <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Walker wrote: > >> Looking forward to more great answers. :] > > Mail is a fully functioning MUA (Mail User Agent). > > If you have sendmail configured properly to send and receive mail on the > Internet, it will send mail anywhere, and receive mail sent from anywhere. > > I have my own OBSD web/mailserver in-house, running over my ATT-DSL > account (has 5 static IP addresses):
Ouch, I thought I was doing well - I get one static and four dynamic. Still I have IPv6 (a static /60) which is rare in Australia although I haven't used it yet. > http://robertwittig.net/workshop.html Cool. You are much neater than me and have more computers. > ...and it has been sending and receiving Internet mail for around 5 > years without interruption. > > If you have sendmail in its default configuration, then it will only > send email and messages on localhost. I wondered about having Sendmail on by default. > The 'mail' MUA is pretty kludgy, so I almost never use it... only when I > am working on a server and really, really, really have to send someone > an email. That's fine for me. >From the man page: mail is an intelligent mail processing system which has a command syntax reminiscent of ed(1) with lines replaced by messages. Apparently Bill Joy uses ed so I may as well learn it, I like simple things. http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kirkenda/joy84.html I never understood the hooplah about vi until a few months back - I' > I have cron jobs set up on the server (up in my attic workshop), that > email me copies of all my logs, which I receive in my office (one floor > down) using Thunderbird. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
