On 13:59 11 Aug 2002, Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > Therefore it's often sensible to use your ISP's SMTP server. And thus a | > script of some kind instead of sendmail, since you're only doing dispatch, | > not routing. | Yes, it is (actually, it is only sensible way how to make sending of mails | working on dial-up machine without bind etc.), but why not to configure your | very own sendmail properly?
I had thought I'd explained that. If you're going to have a mail system on your home machine that talks to the outside world, you NEED a valid, deliverable domain for it. And that CANNOT be your ISP's domain, because there's plenty of accounts on your home machine whose name will collide with names in the ISP domain, or just be plain undeliverable. Egro, you need a domain, and a listening sendmail. As I remarked, my ISP (optus@home) blocks SMTP delivery and therefore I can't run a mail service on my home machine without extra finagling. And nor can other Optus customers. So in short, many people are not in a position to setup up a valid mail system at home, and further don't need one - they only need to be able to do SMTP dispatch. | > If I were only doing SMTP, I'd be doing that (well, really using my own | > smtpsend script which does that same job). But I'm doing a bit more. | > So I have my own script. | | You do not have to have your own script (have you ever heard about | reinventing the wheel?). When other wheels are not the right shape, one must roll one's own or be a slave to someone else's unsuitable setup. I have LOTS of wheels with special fittings. | I understand that you have problems with | configuring underdocumented sendmail (who doesn't have them?), Actually, I now have a correctly configured sendmail at home, having made external delivery arrangements for my domain. And I still use my special wheel, because sendmail doesn't do what I want, not will ANY email only tool. | but still I | believe that it is better to use it than your own Perl script (twenty years | of development makes sendmail probably at least slightly more robust than | your own creation). Since my script does less (and more; I dispatch news with it too) and sendmail has a long history of vunerabilities and is overfeatured for my needs, I would call that logic a little shakey. | So, take a look at | http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/offline_mailing.html, where is very well | documented exactly yours configuration of sendmail and take a look at the | attached sendmail.mc. | What about that? Sorry, but if I were installing from scratch I'd use postfix, not sendmail. As it is, I've arranged my own domain and set the (fairly easy for a techie) setting in the RedHat sendmail.mc file and am now happy. But I still don't use it for mutt dispatch, and never will. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Yes, [congress is] petty and venal and selfish. That's why they're called _representatives_. - Will Durst
