[thelist] Re: Jaguar (Mac OS X 10.2), Sendmail and PHP

[Andy Warwick]

On 2002/09/10 11:48 pm, "August Trometer" <bluegus at mac.com> wrote:

> Try this:
> http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/08/23/jaguar_server.html
>
> It will get sendmail set up for you in no time.

Yeah, tried that.

That is the exact tutorial I've been struggling with.

Problem is that tutorial is for setting up sendmail to *receive* email
addressed to my host. But I haven't got a host, and don't want to do that. I
want to simply *send* email out. From what little I know, if I set up
sendmail to do that using that tutorial, I'll have myself an open-relay and
be inundated with spammers.

I don't want anything running on port 25 that *accepts* email, unless it's
coming from localhost; if I can do that without running any kind of daemon
so much the better.

That's the problem with all the tutorials I've found; they assume I am
wanting to take over the admin of email for my domain, rather than having my
ISP do it.

But the machine in question is an iBook that isn't always connected to the
internet, nor to the same ISP (so I can't simply set PHP to 'go out' via my
ISP's smtp server.)

What I need is a local smtp server that will take PHP's email and - if I've
got a live connection - forward it out to the Internet at large, otherwise
hold it until I *do* have a connection. The only incoming mail will be from
PHP on localhost itself.

Starting sendmail is no problem; it's the config I'm having problems with.

Thanks anyway.

Andy W