Showing posts with label OpenSMTPD. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OpenSMTPD. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
OpenBSD NC4200: Another info on OpenSMTPD.
I wrote about OpenSMTPD before and the link I gave previously is no longer active. While searching for more info on OpenSMTPD, I found this page http://calomel.org which has informations and tips on many *BSD related stuff (mainly OpenBSD). There's also section on OpenSMTPD How To which is great.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
OpenBSD NC4200: Alpine trough OpenSMTPD went fine.
Ah, done testing Alpine email client with OpenSMTPD and it's working fine. In Alpine, I go to "Setup" to configure Alpine and choose "Config". Then in the "SMTP Server (for sending)" line, I just put localhost as the value and then exit the setting. I composed an email and it went through just fine. Great. Bye bye sendmail.
Saturday, January 23, 2010
OpenBSD NC4200: from SendMail to OpenSMTPD, from GNU/screen to tmux.
Heyya, while seaching for any OpenBSD related goodies, I found a few interesting things. First of all is tmux, a terminal multiplexer a-la GNU/Screen. I used screen a lot if I'm not in wmii and tmux is a BSD-licensed equivalent. Hurrah! In OpenBSD 4.6, tmux is already in default installation so no need to get a package for it. man tmux if you're interested. As fer me, it's time to say goodbye to screen ;).
Then it's the OpenSMTPD. From the official website:
"OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
The OpenSMTPD project was started as a separate project after a developer suffered from eyes bleeding while trying to slightly alter sendmail configuration. It was imported in the OpenBSD tree in November 2008 to help speed up development."
In OpenBSD 4.6, OpenSMTPD is readily available but not enabled by default. 4.6 still uses Sendmail. I tried finding the way to enabled it using 4.6 man smtpd but there's no installation details. However, using man smtpd (OpenBSD -current, more details than in my default 4.6 manual) is much better. Also, you can read here that OpenSMTPD is still heavily in development. For a personal machine like my laptop, OpenSMTPD will have no issue. I've already enabled the OpenSMTPD using the online manual and so far, it's ok. Haven't tested it yet. Soon OpenSMTPD will replace Sendmail in the base OpenBSD system.
Then it's the OpenSMTPD. From the official website:
"OpenSMTPD is a FREE implementation of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol.
The OpenSMTPD project was started as a separate project after a developer suffered from eyes bleeding while trying to slightly alter sendmail configuration. It was imported in the OpenBSD tree in November 2008 to help speed up development."
In OpenBSD 4.6, OpenSMTPD is readily available but not enabled by default. 4.6 still uses Sendmail. I tried finding the way to enabled it using 4.6 man smtpd but there's no installation details. However, using man smtpd (OpenBSD -current, more details than in my default 4.6 manual) is much better. Also, you can read here that OpenSMTPD is still heavily in development. For a personal machine like my laptop, OpenSMTPD will have no issue. I've already enabled the OpenSMTPD using the online manual and so far, it's ok. Haven't tested it yet. Soon OpenSMTPD will replace Sendmail in the base OpenBSD system.
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