[FreeBSD][Newb] How I use sendmail to send mail?

[Schiz0]

On 6/10/07, Bjorn Boulder <bornboulder77 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> People,
>
> I need help with sendmail on my FreeBSD box running:
> FreeBSD 5.3
>
> Specifically, I need help using sendmail to send mail.
>
> I inherited this FreeBSD box from a guy who left for
> another gig.
>
> The box appears to be stable.  It's been up since Nov
> 2006
> and is running a couple of simple web sites.
>
> The web sites work okay.
>
> We want to put up a 3rd site which needs to send mail
> to people who register.
>
> I'm assuming that I need to get sendmail working.
>
> That is, I need it to send mail.
>
> It does not need to receive mail because we are using
> google apps to receive all of our mail from the
> outside.
>
> It was easy to setup:
>
> -Follow directions here: http://google.com/a/
> -Update the MX records for our domains
>
> When I try using sendmail I run this simple test:
>
> 1. create a text file, sendme.txt:
>
> From: bornboulder77 at yahoo.com
> Subject: test mail
> Hi Bjorn
> Bye Bjorn
>
> 2. Run shell command:
> /usr/sbin/sendmail bornboulder77 at yahoo.com <
> sendme.txt
>
> Result: The mail is not delivered.
>
> I'd welcome any tips for configuring sendmail to send
> mail.
>
> -b
>
>
>
>
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Also check /etc/rc.conf and /etc/defaults/rc.conf along with everything in
/etc/mail/