Comments on: Setting up Sendmail on FreeBSD 6.2

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:25:14 +0000

Thanks for the link! I didn’t know that you can use gmail as an email proxy. It’s a great alternative for non-SBC folks.

The “me” problem sounds like a gmail issue.

If you are sending an email from yourself@gmail.com to yourself@gmail.com, gmail will automatically replace the “from” field with “me”. Are you sending the email to the same address as your email proxy account?

What could also be happening internally is you might be sending the email to yourself and then gmail forwards that email to your recipient.

Unfortunately, I do not know how to fix this problem since I do not use gmail as my mail proxy.

Please let me know when/how you’ve resolved it.

By: tanakskool

tanakskool — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:03:39 +0000

Someone has wrote about it. Here is the link.
http://www.linuxha.com/other/sendmail/gmail.html

It’s been a long day and now I’m having another problem. When I send an email, the Sender’s information name always being displayed as from “me” instead to display my own name/username. Also, the Sender’s email address displayed incorrect email. Do you know how to solve this? Thanks

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 07:20:20 +0000

You’re welcome (although I didn’t do much)! It seems like 5-6 hours is the common “bleeding my brain out” period for setting up sendmail. Please let me know if you ever create a tutorial about the problems you’ve encountered and how you solved those problems. It would be an interesting read and I wouldn’t mind adding your link as a reference on this article.

By: tanakskool

tanakskool — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:15:04 +0000

Nvm.. After 6 hours bleeding my brain I finally be able to receive and send email using gmail.. haha.. Thanks for the tutorial anyway, it helped me a bit.. I hope you can make more freebsd tutorial in the future.. thanks again

By: Thaya Kareeson

Thaya Kareeson — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:15:17 +0000

There is no pity in not having sbcglobal. I’m sure your internet service provider has an outward facing email server that you can piggyback off of. What is your provider? Maybe it might help to search your provider’s name with ‘sendmail’ in google.

By: tanakskool

tanakskool — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 16:26:20 +0000

Pity me. I don’t have sbcglobal email account. Any other way to use sendmail? thanks.

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