[commercial] sendmail : single user scenario : setup : anyone interested?

Alejandro Imass aimass at yabarana.com
Fri Dec 14 13:35:26 UTC 2018


On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 6:32 AM Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh at kathe.in> wrote:

> hello, i have tried but failed to set up my personal mailing system
> under freebsd.
> i am currently on freebsd-12 amd64 and solicit aid from interested
> people in configuring my sendmail.
> i am comfortable using mailx and am planning to use fetchmail to get
> mail off my pop3 mail host.
> i cannot pay more than us$30 towards charges for configuring my
> sendmail.
>
>

Hey Mayuresh,

Sendmail is a great MTA without a doubt. But for your personal mailing
system may I recommend that you change the base MTA to Postfix.

Postfix is much simpler to configure than Sendmail and works great on
FreeBSD:

https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mail-changingmta.html

Best,
Alex


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