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Configuring sendmail behind a firewall

I'm setting up a server which is on a network behind a firewall and I want programs on this computer to be able to use sendmail to send emails to any email address. We have an SMTP server running on this network (let's call it mailrelay.example.com) which is how we're supposed to get outgoing emails through the firewall. So how do I co...

Sending mail via sendmail from python

If I want to send mail not via SMTP, but rather via sendmail, is there a library for python that encapsulates this process? Better yet, is there a good library that abstracts the whole 'sendmail -versus- smtp' choice? I'll be running this script on a bunch of unix hosts, only some of which are listening on localhost:25; a few of these ...

What's a simple method to dump pipe input to a file? (Linux)

I'm looking for a little shell script that will take anything piped into it, and dump it to a file.. for email debugging purposes. Any ideas? ...

How can I set triggers for sendmail?

If my email id receives an email from a particular sender, can I ask sendmail to trigger a different program and pass on the newly arrived email to it for further processing? This is similar to filters in gmail. Wait for some email to arrive, see if it matches the criteria and take some action if it does. ...

How do I get sendmail to work reliably on a Mac OS 10.5?

I need to use sendmail from Macs in an office. At the moment, I can get it to work on the two development Macs (which I think is due to MAMP being installed and working), but getting it to go on the others seems to be a problem... I assume it's down to some config issue, and hope there's someway to fix it (without resorting to installin...

Does your email client let you add custom headers programmatically?

I'm working on an anti-spam project (centmail) that involves having the sender use a client plugin that adds a custom header (as well as a signature, but that part's easier). The general problem is to add an email header to your outgoing mail where the contents of the header field is determined dynamically for each message. Surprisingl...

sendmail and MX records when mail server is not on web host

This is a problem I'm sure is easy to fix, but I've been banging my head on it all day. I'm developing a new web site for a client. The web site resides at (this is an example) website.com. I have a PHP form script to email visitors' requests to [email protected]. When I coded this on a staging server on a different domain, all wo...

Can I use Google Apps for domain Email and still use a "sendmail" server to send emails?

I am using Google Apps for domain to host the email from my domain and I've setup the MX records on my site according to the Google documentation. Can I also use a "sendmail" server to send additional emails from my webserver without there being a conflict with Google APPS? Specific questions: 1) I want to add MX records for my sendmai...

ssh tunnel for sendmail

I'm going nuts here, trying to get my system configured. I have a laptop at home and a workstation at work. I use mutt and sendmail. I have a home isp that is on a lot of blacklists, so that any email I send from my laptop through my isp is frequently blocked as spam by the receiver. I can ssh to my workstation and use mutt there inter...

How do I send up debian sendmail to use google Apps smtp to by pass ISP blocking smtp

I have a debian webserver and it is running shopsite and some php programs. Which use sendmail to send out email to customers. So this server only needs to send email out. So how do I setup sendmail to use Google Apps smtp? Because I am getting the following error: sm-mta stat=Deferred: Connection reset by mx4.hotmail.com ...

DomainKeys Sendmail DNS

What steps do I have to take to configure my sendmail server to implement domainkeys properly? Also what do I have to do on the DNS end? ...

Sendmail milter domainkeys

I am configuring sendmail on an ubuntu box with sendmail. I followed the instructions on this blog (the blog actually explains how to do it in a good way that I can understand): http://stefferson.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/install-yahoo-domainkeys-and-google-spfdebian-ubuntu/ Do I really need this part?: apt-get install openldap-utils I...

mail function

Hello every body How can I send an email using mail function in php. have I to put mailServer IP address in this function I'm waiting for you reply Thanks anyway ...

Domain Keys, DKIM and Sendmail

When I am using DomainKeys and DKIM together on a linux system, do I run both of them on the same port? DomainKeys: /usr/bin/dk-filter -l -p inet:8891@localhost -d example.com -s /var/db/ domainkeys/default.key.pem -S default DKIM: /usr/bin/dkim-filter -l -p inet:8891@localhost -c simple -d example.com -k /var/db/dkim/mail.key.pem -s m...

Sendmail runs a smtp server(daemon) in the background?

I am relatively new to arena of emails. Just drilling out tutorial by tutorial about email internals. My requirement is I need to send emails and receive emails from my webhost. For this to happen, I need an smtp server(daemon) running right? I recently studied about MTAs, which are responsible for transferring emails from one host to th...

How do I send mail to my google apps mail server from the webserver with the same name (using sendmail)?

Mail for my domain is handled by google apps service, all required DNS MX records entered correctly. Also I have webserver that handles HTTP requests for the domain. And I can't send mail from that server to my mail domain, sendmail ignores MX records and always trying to deliver all messages for my domain locally. Looks like it conside...

How can I send local Email by using exchange with asp.net?

I have a project that need to sends notification for employees by local email. I use SmtpClient class to send email but didn't work! here is the code: MailMessage message = new MailMessage(); message.From = new MailAddress("[email protected]"); message.To.Add(new MailAddress("[email protected]")); message.Su...

programmatically sending out emails from a linux server

I want to send out one off emails from a linux server. The server does not need to receive emails back. Is there a simpler solution than sendmail for sending outgoing emails only? I would prefer to use Perl to send the email. ...

How do i create an email contact form for my website

I'm looking to create a form on my website where users can enter their email address and a message (however long). Then upon clicking on a submit button, the code, sends the message as an email to my mailbox. I was wondering if someone knew what code i could use. I am using PHP as my server-side language. ...

Sendmail for Windows

I'm hunting for a mail sending program which can be used with command line arguments. Ive tried jaber's sendmail . Its really neat, but its unfortunately broken for SSL auth. Any alternatives ? (Oh yeah, I dont want to use perl :P) ...