Re: MailServer

[Shoto <shoto@nixsolve.com>]

Yes I think your right, as I was able to get sendmail working for 
outside mail by doing  /usr/sbin/sendmail -L sm-mta -bd -q30m
in the rc.conf.  

thanks.. 





Telent wrote:

><< I want to run a mailserver on my OpenBSD 3.0 stable box, i noticed that
>the sendmail on Openbsd has been compiled  now to only accept mail
>locally and not from the world.  What am I to use for a mailserver to
>accept mail from out side world? smptd? smtpfwdd? >>
>
>Firstly, it hasn't been "compiled" not to accept mail from the outside
>world.  The daemon options in /etc/rc.conf have been set that way.
>
>Secondly, to answer your question - you can use replacements, but
>personally, I prefer Sendmail, and I don't have any experience with the
>replacements.  Try going into /etc/rc.conf, scrolling down to:
>
>sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -C/etc/mail/localhost.cf -bd -q30m"
>
>And changing it to something like:
>
>sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m"  (Personally, I use just -bd and process the
>queue manually, but either will work.)
>
>Then, reboot, or simply kill -9 your current sendmail daemon and restart it
>with "sendmail -bd -q30m".
>
>That will get the daemon options right, but you're going to have to do your
>homework on the subject of sendmail configuration.  It isn't a drop-in MTA.
>I highly recommend reading all the way through http://www.sendmail.org/faq/.
>
>-Telent