Basic Mail Server

[Bob Sneidar]

On 10/12/2015 10:09 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I'm curious about this. Are you saying you have an SMTP service running?
If so, who do you relay through? I have an issue with customers
frequently, where the contact does not know what their email server is,
who provides it, or even who the IT company is that maintains it.
(Frankly it shocks me to see how many people run businesses with a
complete lack of any technical expertise whatsoever).

What I would like to offer the customer is an easy to set up SMTP server
to act as a relay. The problem then becomes encryption. Sarah's library
does not do any encryption, and all attempts by anyone (including
myself) have failed to get this to work even with the shell.

If you have something that has gotten around this (you mentioned a hash)
I'd be interested in it and would be glad to pay a fair price for it to
use in these situations.

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I don't know if this will help the OP's situation, but here I have a
number of apps that need to send email notifications, and some of them
are running on systems that have no email server installed. Most of
these are for server monitoring so I'm the only recipient, but maybe
the general idea may be useful:

I set up a CGI on one system that I want the emails to be sent from
(which happens to also be written in LC, but it could be Perl, PHP,
Python, bash, etc.) which accepts a recipient address, subject, and
body, along with an obscure hash used for authentication, and puts
those together to send the email from there.

The CGI itself is named very obscurely (e.g. something like
"gfdRRth88ewLYKss.cgi"), so it's unlikely to be guessed by any
spiders.  And even if it were, anyone attempting to use the CGI for
spamming would also need to figure out the hash inputs, and there are
enough zombied Win installs that there are easier ways to hijack
machines; this one just isn't worth the effort :)

Not bullet-proof (nothing is), but reasonably secure and super-easy to
use.  Now I have a single location for notifications that I can use
from any client or server process that needs to send email, without
even needing to have an email server installed.  Sending notifications
is a one-liner anywhere I need 'em.

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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web