Thanks Crystal for your reply and encouragement, I'll explore all your suggestions and references when I have enough time. Cheers, Andrew
Le jeu. 16 févr. 2023 à 12:58, Crystal Kolipe <kolip...@exoticsilicon.com> a écrit : > On Thu, Feb 16, 2023 at 12:27:37PM +0100, Andrew wrote: > > *Do you know any recipe for using $ mail on the command line? Or a web > link > > that proposes one.* > > > > The man pages are great but they are meant for people with great > technical > > skills, which I am not. > > What exactly are you trying to set up? > > Local mail works out of the box on a default OpenBSD install, so I'm > assuming > that what you want to do is to send and receive mail to other internet > hosts > without using a desktop/gui client, I.E. using the traditional built-in > mail > functionality typical of a unix-like system. > > This isn't particularly difficult, but it does depend to a certain extent > on > the configuration of your ISP, and also exactly how you want the system to > behave. So it's not possible to give you a simple fixed list of steps to > follow to 'make it work'. > > First up, the /usr/bin/mail utility in base is really a hard link to > /usr/bin/mailx. > > This is a very simple command line mail tool, which you probably don't > want to > use as your mail email application because it's lacking many features. > > Other command line based mail programs are available in ports, such as > mutt, > which is widely used by openbsd developers. > > Then you need to set up smtpd to handle your inbound and outbound mail. > > For outbound mail, you _probably_ want to, (and need to), relay it via your > ISP's 'smarthost', but we would need more information to know this for > certain > and to give specific advice on how to set it up. > > For inbound mail, you have several choices: > > * Run your own MX on a fixed IP broadband link. > * Pick up your mail via POP3 or IMAP from within the mail user agent, > (such as > mutt), and feed it in to your local mail spools that way. > * Pick up your mail via POP3 or IMAP and feed it into the local mail > system. > * Run your own MX on your own server or VM somewhere, and relay it to your > own local, private MX. > * Other options also exist. > > If you are new to this, then you probably want the second option. Maybe > the > third. > > > And web pages are full of phoney tips which rarely work. > > Agreed. > > > I hope that this is the right place for asking such questions. > > Yes, it is. > > But we can't give you a step-by-step guide without a bit more information. >
