Email for Standalone Workstations
Knowing how to run a full-fledged email server is an excellent system administration skill. But this skill won’t help you much if your FreeBSD machine isn’t intended to be an Internet server providing mail services for dozens of users. What if you’re just running a workstation, in the same way that someone might run a Windows desktop machine, with a Gnome or KDE desktop and graphical productivity applications instead of server tools?
Fortunately, a standalone workstation’s email setup is much less complex than that of a full-scale server. FreeBSD’s default configuration is to start a “submission” Sendmail process (sendmail_submit_enable="YES" is the default setting in /etc/defaults/rc.conf), and you need not ...
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