Cliff Wells wrote: > On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 12:28 +0200, Benjamin Niemann wrote: >> Cliff Wells wrote: > >[snip] > >> > By using a local SMTP server to proxy, your app can >> > queue up a large amount of mail in a much shorter period. It won't >> > necessarily go out any faster, but at least your app won't be tied up >> > waiting for the mail to be accepted. So there is perhaps one useful >> > (beyond learning and fun) application for using a local SMTP server. >> >> It would be interesting what the intention of the OP is. I just stumpled >> upon a similar problem. The prog I'm currently working on has a function >> to report crashes back to me. Originally these reports where sent by mail >> - no problem on UNIX/Linux hosts where you can assume to have a working >> MDA on localhost. But what to do on Windows systems?!? Ask for a SMTP >> server during installation? Confusing as the program itself is totally >> unrelated to email. In this case you _could_ deliver the mail directly to >> my MX host... But instead of this I installed a small CGI on my website >> that sends the mails to me and gets the data via HTTP POST from my app. > > You can also use port redirection to bypass this sort of thing. Send on > port 10025 instead and direct your MTA to listen on both ports. This would still be problematic with company firewall that block everything but a handful of ports. Port 80 is still one of the safest bets.
-- Benjamin Niemann Email: pink at odahoda dot de WWW: http://www.odahoda.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
