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How to use Sendmail with FreeBSD

April 28, 2010 by Kurt Turner

Using sendmail with freebsd is easy. Here we will cover

  • how to start and stop sendmail
  • how to send mail with sendmail
  • how to send mail from the terminal, cli, command prompt
  • how to make sendmail start at boot time

How to start and stop send mail:

  1. [php]/etc/rc.d/sendmail stop</li>
    <li>/etc/rc.d/sendmail start</li>
    <li>/etc/rc.d/sendmail restart[/php]

How to send mail with sendmail from the terminal aka cli or command prompt or root
[php]mail someuser@somedomain.com
Subject: For Testing Only
This email is for testing the mail delivery system only.
* then press ctrl+D[/php]

How to make sendmail start at boot time:

  1. edit /etc/rc.conf
  2. add – sendmail_enable=”YES”

Filed Under: Systems Tagged With: freebsd, mail, send mail, Sendmail

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