From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hhr4S-0003bM-5f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:50:56 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l3SHniZZ028198; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:49:44 GMT Received: from ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com [24.25.9.103]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l3SHjNqp022857 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 17:45:23 GMT Received: from booty.electronsweatshop.com (cpe-071-065-216-162.nc.res.rr.com [71.65.216.162]) by ms-smtp-04.southeast.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l3SHjLwi029588 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:45:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by booty.electronsweatshop.com (Postfix, from userid 81) id 3117737D50; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 127.0.0.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user rpbarlow) by localhost with HTTP; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <2314.127.0.0.1.1177782320.squirrel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <46324E27.7040708@gmail.com> References: <46324E27.7040708@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Howto for Sendmail configuration? From: "Randy Barlow" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Archives-Salt: 5aac27ec-e05a-4341-b9c2-1604afbe604d X-Archives-Hash: bd65cdd9a680c09e7be764ed41ff8914 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..." -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list