Simple Text Mail Setup

Gerard gerard at seibercom.net
Mon Jun 23 20:38:30 UTC 2008


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:13:50 -0400
Bill Moran <wmoran at potentialtech.com> wrote:

> In response to Rem Roberti <rem at remdog.net>:
> > > 
> > > No.  What you really want to do is set smart_host to the outgoing
> > > mail server provided by your ISP.
> > 
> > Please forgive my ignorance here, but how does one accomplish that?
> 
> Oops, I misread your message to be "why" and not "what".
> 
> Steps (as root):
> 1) cd /etc/mail
> 2) make
> 3) Edit [hostname].mc to uncomment the smart_host setting and add your
>    ISP's server
> 4) make install
> 5) /etc/rc.d/sendmail restart
> 
> At least, I believe those steps are correct.

I believe step four is:

	make all install restart

You then skip step 5.


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Gerard
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