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[Airy]

Hi every one,

when I add a user, I want to automatically send a mail to him with his password and his username.
I'm trying to configure pfSense for smtp. I looked in the php.ini but there's no smtp configuration.
pfSense has not sendmail too, I have tried to install Ssmtp but the make command is not found.
The response I had on the forum is that pfSense is a firewall.

So how can I send mail with pfSense, does a Package exist or should I install an other server behind pfSense just for smtp ?

thank you,
best regards,
Airy

[stephenw10]

There are no development tools in pfSense, like make, as you have discovered but you can add FreeBSD packages. You have to use the 8.1 archive for pfSense 2.0.x:

pkg_add -r ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/ssmtp.tbz

However you can easily break pfSense if you're not careful!  ;)

pfSense can already send mail for notifications though I do not use that function.

Steve

[podilarius]

pfSense doesn't use an internal mail server to send notifications. It requires and external one. This is setup in the Advanced configuration menu.

[stephenw10]

Ah Ok, like I said I've never used it.
So it's just acting as a mail client then?

Steve

[podilarius]

Yes. Basically that is all that it does.

[Airy]

Ok, thank you for your answers.
I'm trying to install an Ubuntu with Ssmtp on it.
I'm trying to install postfix forward package too, but I'm having trouble with it, i don't know what to write in the "domains to forward"

EDIT: I've put in domain "gmail.com" and in ip "smtp.gmail.com", am I right ?
EDIT 2: Should I modify something in the php.ini to use the mail() function ?

[stephenw10]

You should ask this in the postfix thread in the packages subforum.

Steve