Running sendmail, procmail, pop3d, and pine

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So I got it booted, with ftp and apache running I thought I was on my way. Then, I tried to find the rest of the daemons I've become accustomed to on LinuxPPC2K (as well as a few applications).

First off, I had to start sendmail manually, but I don't think it's working. I did my su to root, then put "sendmail -bd" to run it as a daemon. I then ran (blech) mail to see what was coming in. I realized I don't have procmail running so it likely isn't delivering the messages to me because of that.

Next, I need to get pop3d running so I can check mail from work or elsewhere without having to do a ssh session to run (blech) mail.

Lastly, I really want to have pine running. I know, mail.app is cool (I was referring to the command line mail application before, not the GUI Mail appication which ships with OS X), but when I'm connecting remotely, I need to run pine. Also, pine has some really powerful features which I really like when sorting through my mail.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
Pine works from the Terminal app (Applications -> Utilities). Start Terminal, then telnet to your remote server and run Pine.

Steve
 
Steve, that's not what he meant.. hehe.. in his case, his MacOS X box *is* "the remote server" so he'll need to have Pine installed on it. That's what he's talking about. :) Many people sit down at their *nix box at home and use pine for local mail anyway... or lazy sods like myself use Pine to get email from a machine 3' away. :D
 
Hi, I want to know if OSX comes with a Mail server? or could anyone recomend an email server with Virtual domain capabilities..


Thanks




Peace

:D
 
Hey, Dr.Stein,

use <a href="http://kapu.net/ports/pine/">The MacOSX port of pine</a> and you get what you wanted ;-)

In the default installation sendmail will complain about group-writable directories and exit. Look at your log-files and change permissions accordingly...

cu:Stray
 
I've been trying to get sendmail to start as a daemon automatically on reboot for two days and I haven't got it yet. I just want to run sendmail as an outgoing mail server because they have forwarding disabled on the Exchange sever at work. I can start the daemon manually on reboot using sendmail -bd on a command prompt. I had no trouble with this on the osx pb.

All I did to get sendmail working was open /etc/hostconfig and change MAILSERVER=-NO- to MAILSERVER=-YES- but I still have to start the daemon manually on reboot.

Does anyone know how to do this?
 
are u sure u have a config file, if yes, is it the right directory, if yes, is the config file "bug" free. about pine, i can't help u with pine with remote mailservers.
 
All this takes is a couple simple changes to some textfiles on the drive. You'll need root access to do this, though, and I'd suggest using vi or some other unix command-line level editor to be sure that the file gets saved with unix-style linebreaks.

First, edit /etc/hostconfig, changing the line MAILSERVER=-NO- to MAILSERVER=-YES-.

(Optional step - only necessary if you have a qualified domain name and intend to recieve mail on the machine. Not necessary for sending only.) In the same file (/etc/hostconfig), change HOSTNAME=-AUTOMATIC- to HOSTNAME="yourmachine.yourdomain.com".

Now, to get sendmail to startup automatically at boot, you need to edit the file /system/library/startupitems/sendmail/sendmail. Towards the end of the file, you'll see a line that ends with an ampersand (&). Remove the ampersand, and save the file.

Reboot!

To test sendmail, create a textfile (in this example, the filename is testmail.txt). Then type this at in the terminal:

mail -s "Subject of the mail" YourEmailAddress@wherever.com < testmail.txt

For a slightly clearer example, my test looked like this:

mail -s "Test" adam@lokasdesign.com < /Users/adam/Documents/test.txt

Wait a few moments, and your mail should show up at whatever address you sent it to!

You may get this error returned to you when you try the test send:

/etc/mail/sendmail.cf: line 81: fileclass: cannot open /etc/mail/local-host-names: Group writeable directory

This seems to mean that the root ( / ) directory's permissions are wrong, even though it's giving a different directory. Make sure that the root of the filesystem is set to 755, not 775. To do that type:

sudo chmod 755 /

That should do it!

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-scope
PowerMac G4 400MHz AGP, 54GB hard drive space, 512MB RAM, Mac OS X 10.0.4, ASD 17" Monitor, Altec Lansing APT5 Stereo System.
 
The above solution totally helped in getting sendmail to actually startup and run. The problem I have now is that I can only send and receive mail using the commandline mail tools. I can not get mail via the Mail.app that comes with OS X. I would like to be able to set it up using IMAP or POP3, preferably IMAP. I did try setting it up multiple ways as either, IMAP, POP3, and Unix, but none of these mail types seemed to work. So I don't know if I need to setup some other stuff to enable IMAP and POP3 or if I am just not setting things up correctly in the Mail.app. Then there is there something said above running sendmail as a daemon, perhaps that is my problem. So what should I be doing to get things to work in Mail.app and other mail clients. Thanks in advance...

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RHITMacMan
 
to use sendmail as an outgoing mail server just give "localhost" as your outgoing mail server. That way mail.app will use sendmail to send mail thus. I don't know how to get it to act as an incoming mail server. This just allows me to send mail from behind a firewall.

If you go to sendmail.org there is lots of good documentation on using sendmail.

If you want both incoming and outgoing mail most sysadmins I know prefer Qmail.
 
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