[dokuwiki] Re: Sendmail -- do I have too? WAAAH!
- From: "Joe Lapp" <joe.lapp@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: dokuwiki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 21:33:19 -0500 (CDT)
Andreas Gohr schrieb:
> 1) are you sure your maildaemon (if you are running a linux box it is most
> probably not sendmail but exim, postfix, qmail) isn't working? Usually they
> are configured to send mail directly to the receiver when installed, which
> should work in most cases (except a firewall is blocking that).
I hardly understood a word of this. I'm a Unix/Linux dodo.
I don't believe any mail daemon is running. I didn't bother trying to set one
up on this box because I ran one on my last box and preiodically struggled with
problems.
> 2) Are you running your own server? Or do you have someone responsable at
> your ISP - if yes bug them to fix it, it's their job.
The Linux box sits in my house running a web server but not running a mail
server.
> 3) DokuWiki doesn't talk to the mailer directly but uses PHPs mail()
> function. How PHP sends mail is configurable andit shouldn't be to hard to
> tell it to use your ISPs mailserver.
> http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:tips:mailconfig and
> http://php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php should be of help - from a quick look
> this should work for you in your local.php:
>
> ini_set('SMTP','mail.yourisp.com');
php.net says this only works on Windows. Another line says that mail()
requires sendmail.
It appears that I'd have to find a sendmail wrapper that goes out to a separate
SMTP server. I'm not real keen on trying to get that working.
> 4) Mailserversetup isn't Rocketscience. I recommend Postfix it's dead simple
> but powerful. It's worth an afternoon twiddling ;-)
I think the afternoon of twiddling is what scares me. I've lost most of my
patience with computers. I'm only running Apache, VSFTP and SSH now. I almost
broke down trying to get VSFTP working -- problems configuring authentication.
It's more appealing to me to go straight for something I know is easy and
works: PHPMailer.
Thanks for the tips. Sorry I'm still not receptive to trying to configure
another server.
~joe
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