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

[Bjorn Boulder]

People,

I got sendmail working to send mail.

I started with this:

http://www.google.com/search?q=bsd+sendmail+configuration

>From there I found 2 excellent links which answered
all my questions:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sendmail.html
http://www.technoids.org/freebsdsendmailfaqs.html

It's easy to configure sendmail so it is only a
sender, not a receiver of mail:

In
/etc/rc.conf

put this:
sendmail_enable="NO"    # Run the sendmail inbound
daemon (YES/NO).

And from the faq link this was useful since it told me
how to start sendmail:

5. How do I start sendmail?

# cd /etc/mail
# make start
6. How do I stop sendmail?

# cd /etc/mail
# make stop

After I started sendmail I waited a bit and then sure
enough,
I found the e-mail I was looking for in my yahoo
account.

-b



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