complete rookie sendmail question

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Warren Block
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 3:26 PM
> To: Ken Hawkins
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: complete rookie sendmail question
>
>
> On Sun, 27 Feb 2005, Ken Hawkins wrote:
>
> > alright I found an old blurb about handling a scenario
> similar to mine:
> >
> >
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-July/
> 014468.html
> >
> > it essentially says:
> >
> >
> > If you want to get FreeBSD to forward your email to the MS-Exchange
> > server, you have to:
> >
> >    1. make sure sendmail is running. (ie remove sendmail_* lines from
> >       /etc/rc.conf)
>
> Put sendmail_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
>
> >    2. # cd /etc/mail
> >    3. # cp freebsd.mc `hostname`.mc
>
> That's doing things the hard way and might miss things the
> Makefile will
> do for you.

This is true unless your running a full-blown production mailserver for
a company or some such.  In that case you had better be sufficiently
experienced that the makefile will just get in your way.

Ted