Sendmail newbie questions

From: Tadimeti Keshav (keshav_tadimeti_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 09/12/03

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    Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:47:49 +0100 (BST)
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

    Hello folks,
    I would like to have a mail server running on my
    oh-so-humble 866MHz PIII FreeBSD 4.5 machine. I want
    to use sendmail (it is available as a package). I have
    a few questions to ask.

    1. This is a standalone machine at home, I don't have
    any network cards. Do I need one? I can connect to the
    net using user PPP.

    2. Being totally ignorant of networking, I disabled as
    much of networking as possible. ( I did a standard
    install). Do I need to have such thigs as DNS
    configured.

    3. What about giving my computer a name - do I have to
    do that + do I have to give myself an IP address.

    4. Any other networking detail? I am reading FreeBSD
    Unleashed which is quite detailed and helpful.

    I tried to look at the handbook, but what it says I
    need to read the networking chapter first, which makes
    no sense to me.

    Please help me out. Thanks in advance...
    keshav

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