Re: WOMailDelivery outside the firewall
Re: WOMailDelivery outside the firewall
- Subject: Re: WOMailDelivery outside the firewall
- From: Deirdre Saoirse Moen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 12:00:47 -0700 (PDT)
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> Well, your WO server machine needs access to a working SMTP server.
This is something of a quirk of Unix -- every Unix machine *has* a mail
server. However, not every Unix machine is running it in daemon mode
(which is a good thing). You only need a mail server running in daemon
mode if you want to *receive* mail.
> If your standard SMTP server is not reachable, you can either figure
> out a way to _make_ it reachable, or perhaps you can run an SMTP
> server on the WO Server itself. (If your WO server is OSX, does OSX
> come with an SMTP server that you can turn on? I forget.
OSX comes with Sendmail.
> But even if
> you could, you'd need to make sure you could get an SMTP server on
> the "wrong" side of your firewall to _work_ properly).
Oh, it'd work. But....
1) it has to send the mail with a resolvable host name;
2) the firewall has to permit outgoing mail traffic;
For sendmail, the first can be taken care of in sendmail.cf (if you're
brave) or sendmail.mc (if you're less brave).
> Sorry, this is just a bare outline of what you've got to do, I'm
> afraid I don't know the details of exactly how to get it to work, not
> really being a sysadmin. But that's your goal: You need a properly
> configured and functioning SMTP server that is accessible to your WO
> applications.
Actually, you don't need a running SMTP server, you can use it in
standalone mode IF you're sending the mail from localhost.
For a demo application, use a user@localhost as the email address. If that
user doesn't have spam filtering set up (via spamassassin), you should be
fine.
And, for what it's worth, I am a sysadmin.
--
_Deirdre http://deirdre.net
"Ideally pacing should look like the stock market for the year 1999, up
and up and up, but with lots of little dips downwards...."
-- Wen Spencer on plotting a novel
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