[Cialug] sendmail

[John Roach]

Is the mail generated by a web form ? If so, are you getting mail
delivered locally okay? 


John Roach
Information Technology
Easter Seals Iowa
(515) 274-1529 Ext. 276

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-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On
Behalf Of n.d
Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:32 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] sendmail

i have that mx dns stuff taken care of. its just routing the messages is
what i need to do.

David Champion wrote:

> Would you prefer that it didn't even receive any mail in the first 
> place? This would be accomplished by adding "MX" records in your DNS 
> that just point to the mail server instead of your web server.
>
> -dc
>
> n.d wrote:
>
>> i want it to send all mail it gets to another server. nondiscriminant

>> is what i'm looking for.  i've tried smtp direct delivery and its 
>> being stupid for some reason and i'm not in the mood to fix it heh.
>> so i'm going to try sendmail and pray that does that job while i get 
>> around to fixing the smtp issue.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> John Roach wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, Do you just want your server to send it off to a different box 
>>> , or do you want to do criteria based filtering? If you are using 
>>> Perl or php on your forms, it can output to sendmail for SMTP direct

>>> delivery. If you don't want any other relaying, you can turn off 
>>> sendmail and let it be called command line only for outbound.
>>>
>>> John Roach
>>> Information Technology
>>> Easter Seals Iowa
>>> (515) 274-1529 Ext. 276
>>>
>>> T
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] 
>>> On Behalf Of n.d
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:01 PM
>>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
>>> Subject: [Cialug] sendmail
>>>
>>> is there a way i can use sendmail so it redirects all mail it gets 
>>> to a different server?
>>>
>>> i want to have all mail traffic generated from my website to get 
>>> handled internally and then sent to its final destination. there 
>>> will be no incoming connections on this sendmail other than from the

>>> webserver itself. i hope this made sense.
>>> i would look for the answer to this myself, but i really don't even 
>>> know what i'm looking for.
>>> thanks.
>>
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