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From: "Randy Barlow" <randy@electronsweatshop.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto for Sendmail configuration?
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:45:20 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2314.127.0.0.1.1177782320.squirrel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46324E27.7040708@gmail.com>

On Fri, April 27, 2007 3:25 pm, Dan Cowsill wrote:
> So what I am looking for is a simplified howto describing how I could
> set up sendmail to deliver mail for me...

I really wouldn't recommend using Sendmail, especially not for just
sending mail and not receiving mail.  So my recommendation is that you
unmerge sendmail, and then merge ssmtp.  This is a very simple MTA and is
great if you just want to send mail.  It still offers the standard UNIX
sendmail script, except that it is a wrapper.  So:

1) Umerge sendmail.
2) Emerge ssmtp
3) Edit /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf and set the mailhub variable to your ISP's
SMTP server.  For example, I have the line:

mailhub=smtp-server.carolina.rr.com

for one of my machines.  Hope this helps!

-- 
Randy Barlow
http://www.electronsweatshop.com
"Oh me of little faith..."
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-27 19:25 [gentoo-user] Howto for Sendmail configuration? Dan Cowsill
2007-04-28 15:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
     [not found]   ` <4ef07b8c0704290914n63aceecgb7f9287e41282923@mail.gmail.com>
2007-05-01 15:20     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-04-28 17:45 ` Randy Barlow [this message]
2007-04-29 10:12   ` [gentoo-user] " Mick
2007-04-29 10:31     ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-29 10:51       ` Mick
2007-04-29 11:34         ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-29 18:11           ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar
2007-04-29 13:01     ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Sullivan
2007-04-29 18:09     ` [gentoo-user] " Alexander Skwar

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