Sendmail on OSX through Rev

[Richard Miller]

Thanks, Sarah. A bit too complicated for me to get into though. I'll  
stick with SMTP relays.
Richard


On Aug 13, 2007, at 5:35 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> On 8/14/07, Richard Miller <wow at together.net> wrote:
>> We are using a dedicated Mac Mini as a server through an ISP. We've
>> asked them for a way to send emails from the Mini so we can avoid
>> using SMTP relay. This is the response they sent back. I'm hoping
>> someone here can tell us how to implement this through Rev.
>>
>> "To generate emails from the Mini, you just need to call /usr/sbin/
>> sendmail or /usr/sbin/postfix withthe appropriate arguments.  Turning
>> on postfix as an SMTP server will only affect the Mini's ability to
>> receive email.
>
> I too have a dedicated Mac Mini running as a server, but I do use
> Postfix. People on the network set the Mini's IP address (or
> Rendezvous name) as their SMTP server and all emails get sent there
> first. If the emails match the domain name, then they get routed
> locally, otherwise they get relayed to an external SMTP server. For
> setting up Postfix &/or fetchmail, I highly recommend MailServe
> <http://cutedgesystems.com/software/MailServe/>. It gives you a
> graphical interface to all the setup stuff. The author, Bernard Teo,
> was extremely helpful when I had some configuration problems.
>
> However if you do not want to use SMTP relay, then as your ISP says,
> you can use sendmail. I have a CGI script that does this, and I can
> send it to you if that would help. However it seems to me that the
> complication would be in receiving the mails from the rest of the
> network. If you set up Postfix's SMTP server, it handles the
> connections from other email clients and passes the emails on as
> required. If you want to send all mail on using sendmail, I would
> assume that you are going to have to write your own mail server to
> talk to all the mail clients. There may already be a command line
> program for doing this, but I haven't encountered it yet.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
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