Sendmail on OSX through Rev

[Mark Smith]

Unfortunately, 'write to process' is broken on OS X (bug 3196) - so  
it'll be necessary to bundle all of that stuff up into a variable or  
file, and then use 'shell', if it's actually possible, at all. :(

Best,

Mark

On 14 Aug 2007, at 23:15, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Richard,
> this snippet below:
>
>
>     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
>
> you need to fill the correct path to your sendmail installation,  
> the pFrom,
> pTo, pSubject and pBody variables. if you want attachments or other  
> fancy
> mime stuff, use Shao Sean email library to generate your email.
>
> hope this help.
> andre
> On 8/14/07, Richard Miller <wow at together.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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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