Re: WOMailDelivery outside the firewall
Re: WOMailDelivery outside the firewall
- Subject: Re: WOMailDelivery outside the firewall
- From: Calven Eggert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:22:35 -0400
What does sendmail.cf and sendmail.mc mean?
I only have to send mail from this server. What are the steps needed to
accomplish this?
> 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.
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