[Gnumed-devel] Re: mail server

[David Grant]

Carlos,

I haven't read the link, but it looks like you're on the right track. 
Outgoing-only is what we want. Configuring MTAs can be confusing because 
most of the configuration stuff is for incoming. Outgoing is trivial.

Well if you are in fact on the campus network I don't see why we 
couldn't send through upf.edu...perhaps the From: address is incorrect 
as you said. Net::STMP is supposed to be able to guess it, but maybe it 
"guesses" it by looking at /etc/hostname or something...which in this 
case would not yield upf.edu.

upf.edu should be our first option, for simplicity, then localhost if 
that fails.

David


Carlos Moro wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We could try to configure ssmtp  and if not possible consider postfix...
> I found some info at: 
> http://www.potentialtech.com/wmoran/outgoing-only.html
>
> Best regars,
> carlos
>
> David Grant wrote:
>
> > It doesn't work, but you probably noticed that when you created your 
> > username on the wiki. Another method is to get sendmail working, or a 
> > program which provides a sendmail command wrapper. I use postfix and 
> > it is simple and powerful. We don't need a mail server receiving 
> > capability just sending capability. I'll emerge postfix if I get a 
> > chance. I noticed you have ssmtp already. I tried sstmp once before, 
> > and I couldn't get it to work for me. I might need your help getting 
> > postfix to work.


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