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Re: Listening on port 25 to receive mail



First of all, thanks for your answer and for Lewis' one.

> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 at 7:26 PM
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed%reedmedia.net@localhost>
> To: "Rocky Hotas" <rockyhotas%post.com@localhost>
> Cc: "NetBSD Users Mailing List" <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Subject: Re: Listening on port 25 to receive mail
>
> Your subject says to receive mail and your need is to "relay" mail. Both 
> can be done by default with already installed software.

[...]

> Edit the 
> /etc/postfix/master.cf file and you can uncomment the first "#smtp" line 
> by removing the "#" hash mark. Tell postfix to reload with:

This was the missing configuration (I had already made all the other suggested steps). Now it works!

> Then you should see the *.25 port listening with netstat. 

Yes, it is.

> You don't need official Sendmail sendmail from packages. 
[...]
> You don't need to createthe symlink. When installing the package, there 
> should be a message about the mailwrapper and mailer.conf. You should 
> have a /usr/pkg/share/examples/sendmail/mailer.conf that 
> you can copy to /etc/mailer.conf (instead of doing symlinks for all). 
> (Be sure to backup original first).

Ok, it is very simple.

> I assume you have no /etc/rc.d/ script for sendmail 

That's the case.

> Because maybe the postfix ideas above will work for you 
> quickly.

Yes, they do!
Thank you!

Rocky


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