About sending email and Mac OS X

[Andre Garzia]

Friends,

send email from your local machine using "mail" or "sendmail" shell  
command from Mac OS X is not as trivial as it seems. In most cases  
the email will bounce because your local machine does not sport a  
fully MX Record qualified domain name.

To solve this, I advise people to look into this URL: http:// 
www.david-reitter.com/software/osxpostfix.html

it's about setting Postfix to work in mac os x.

I needed not to follow any of the procedures in that page, but it  
explained to me a lot.
I did follow only one instruction which was to add the MAILSERVICES=- 
YES- option to hostconfig (I think it is used by launchd)


All I needed to do was to open /etc/postfix/main.cf and changed the  
domain data there from a dynamic variable to my own domain  
"andregarzia.com", then all of a sudden, this little function started  
working:

function sendMail pFrom, pTo, pSubject, pBody
  switch the platform
   case "Linux"
     put "/var/qmail/bin/sendmail -t" into mprocess
     open process mprocess for write
     write "From:" && pFrom & crlf to process mprocess
     write "To:" &&   pTo  &  crlf to process mprocess
     write "Subject:" &&  pSubject  &  crlf & crlf to process mprocess
     write   pBody &  crlf to process mprocess
     close process mprocess
     wait until mprocess is not among the lines of the openProcesses
     return the result
     break
   case "MacOS"
     put "mail -s " & quote & pSubject & quote && pTo into mprocess
     open process mprocess for write
     write   pBody &  crlf to process mprocess
     close process mprocess
     wait until mprocess is not among the lines of the openProcesses
     return the result
     break

   end switch
end sendMail

no more bounces. simply and fast.

Cheers
andre
PS: David, if you need more info, send email to me.