On 08/27/13 16:30, rich...@thornton.net wrote: > I have a simple OpenBSD 5.3 Sparc 64 box, which runs very well, given it > is 12+ years old. I would like to set it up so I could send email from > it, and receive email, since I do have a personal domain name,which I > could point to my house IP, if desired.
(assuming they don't block port 25 at home, like they do to me) > The documentation is wonderful, > somehow it should be relatively simple,to edit the proper config files. > Any help from anyone, or is there a good link you could provide, which > explainshow to do this? In years past, I used to use other systems even > Solaris 9, and I knew nothing, but was able tofigure out what to do, but > OpenBSD seems harder to me for this problem. Thanks for any pleasant > help. > Actually, the basic OpenBSD sendmail config is very easy. Maybe too easy. Running a mail server is not easy, and the sendmail config is not the hardest part. See rc.conf, set the line in rc.conf.local as indicated for "normal use". Add domain(s) to /etc/mail/local-host-domains. Restart. Done. It's a moderately safe and sound default config. See /etc/mail/README. The rest is standard sendmail, which ain't easy at all (but it isn't your biggest problem) Even easier is opensmtpd. See "man smtpd" and "man smtpd.conf" That being said... unless you are trying to keep in practice for debugging e-mail problems, you don't want to run your own mail service. Really, you don't. I run my own, I've run mail for the previous two jobs I had, and it just isn't fun anymore. Nick.
