alternative to sendmail

Stythys · 2010-06-06 23:44:30

is there a simple alternative to sendmail out there (specifically getting php to use it.) our sendmail doesn't work, no idea how to fix it, so just wondering what's else is out there.

sand_man · 2010-06-06 23:48:23

postfix?

Stythys · 2010-06-06 23:50:24

I'm really only trying to get my server to be able to send outgoing mail from wikis and forums and stuff btw.

I already have postfix installed. what would it's mail command be? I know it comes bundled with sendmail.. thought it just used that.

falconindy · 2010-06-07 01:19:06

i've been using msmtp to bounce off gmail. postfix is a bit heavy if all you want is an MTA.

sand_man · 2010-06-07 03:22:19

postfix has it's own "sendmail"
You just need to edit mailer.conf

When I installed postfix on my FreeBSD server I just edited mailer.conf to point to the new sendmail

ty@rose /home/ty > cat /etc/mail/mailer.conf
#
# Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
#
sendmail        /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
send-mail       /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
mailq           /usr/local/sbin/sendmail
newaliases      /usr/local/sbin/sendmail

sand_man · 2010-06-07 03:23:12

falconindy wrote:

i've been using msmtp to bounce off gmail. postfix is a bit heavy if all you want is an MTA.

I thought that at first too but it really isn't. Postfix is full featured but is really not heavy at all.

mikesd · 2010-06-07 04:19:53

sand_man wrote:

falconindy wrote:
i've been using msmtp to bounce off gmail. postfix is a bit heavy if all you want is an MTA.
I thought that at first too but it really isn't. Postfix is full featured but is really not heavy at all.

Postfix also has excellent documentation.http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html

Makes it very easy to setup in simple use cases. The first three links under General Configuration are particularly helpful.

steve___ · 2010-06-07 17:39:10

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97940

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#1 2010-06-06 23:44:30

alternative to sendmail

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