Re: Emailing from a daemon process
Re: Emailing from a daemon process
- Subject: Re: Emailing from a daemon process
- From: Doug Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 10:53:34 -0700
Another thing to bring up is that users may not want an open Sendmail server running on their machine just so a background process can send email without the user's intervention. Huh, this is almost like what malware does.
Doug Hill
> On Jul 7, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Jens Alfke <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> On Jul 7, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Carl Hoefs <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> I seem to recall that in the distant past I accomplished issuing emails from a daemon process on Linux by directly interfacing to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Is this the 'Postfix mail tools' you mentioned?
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> Yes, and sendmail on macOS is just a front-end to the Postfix system. The trouble is that Postfix isn’t actually configured, so it looks like all sendmail will do is write the email to a mail queue that’s not being processed by anything. (You can read the main page for sendmail for details.)
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> You can set up Postfix without much trouble, but I assume you want your daemon to work on anyone’s machine without them having to spend 5 minutes mucking about with command-line tools first...
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> —Jens
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