Hiya Robert. > 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 You are much neater than me. > ...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. It wouldn't make sense to listen to the world pf or no pf. > 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'd been using pico and other nonsense. Besides I don't want to do my "normal" mail on OpenBSD, I use gmail for now. I want to pipe things of interest and maybe send some logs here and there. > 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. Cool. I think I might start on OpenSMTPD it seems to be the future on OpenBSD and probably a lot saner to use: The OpenSMTPD project was started as a separate project after a developer suffered from eyes bleeding while trying to slightly alter sendmail configuration. It was imported in the OpenBSD tree in November 2008 to help speed up development. http://www.opensmtpd.org/ Hah. Thanks for the insight. Nevermind the duplicate mail - I'm breaking in a new keyboard. Best wishes. _______________________________________________ Openbsd-newbies mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.theapt.org/listinfo/openbsd-newbies
