Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Internet Messaging with Email

[waldo k. <wki...@al...>]

Hermit wrote:
> waldo kitty wrote:
> 
>> den...@ur... wrote:
>>
>>> I have Preferred Contact Method set to "Internet Messaging with 
>>> Email". It works great if someone wants to contact me, but I am not 
>>> getting emails when someone tries to sign up for a new account.
>>
>> i ran into this problem, too... 
> 
> What os are you running?   Most servers have a 'default' smtp app.  May 
> be the easist way to go.    Just don't run it in daemon mode and you 
> avoid alot of headaches.

i'm running IBM's OS/2... i am the sysadmin... the machine in question has sendmail but i've not set it up due to all 
the problems that sendmail has had... instead, i've installed weasel for smtp mail capabilities but due to other needs, 
it forwards all mail to an internal smtp server which is specialized for one domain and rejects all mail not destined 
for that domain... so, i cannot use weasel to the fullest capability that it has, at this time... when i set weasel up 
in the normal fashion and have it forward all mail to my smarthost, everything works a treat but then mail to that 
special internal domain can't be delivered... this is due, in part, to the necessity of running that other smtp server 
on a non-standard port...

the best solution, in my case, is to have my apps do direct smtp to my smarthost rather than to my smtp server... phpBB 
does this (after i corrected a minor problem with the name presented in the HELO and/or EHLO) as well as several other 
php based apps... those that rely on the php mail() function can't work due to the problem with my smtp mail setup that 
cannot be resolved at this time...

thus, adding direct SMTP capability to those apps that need it offers the best all around capability...

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