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Configuring Sendmail On Jaguar

Posted by Hemos on from the get-it-up-and-working dept.

Spock the Baptist writes "This website's recent article on the O'Reilly Network is by James Duncan Davidson, speaking at the recent O'Reilly Mac OS X Conference. PowerBook, and iBook owners will likely be intrested in this article, as sending e-mail from multiple locations is less trouble when done via sendmail rather than a remote mail serever. Also, if your ISP's mail server goes down you'll still be able to send outgoing e-mail which can be quite handy."

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  1. What's the Advantage? by reallocate · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would a singleton home user of a dialup or broadband ISP want to do this? What's the advantage?

    I've done it on standalone Linux boxes. My mail went out and came in, just like I did when it wasn't running a mail server.

    Is there a trade-off for the added complexity?

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    1. Re:What's the Advantage? by matthew_brock · · Score: 2, Insightful

      The advantage for laptop users is that you don't have to keep altering your smarthost/relay settings. You can just set your smarthost to 127.0.0.1 and then never have to touch it again. Otherwise you have to keep changing the smarthost depending on whether you're using your dialup at home, or whether you're at your friend's house, or whether you want to send personal mail whilst you're at work, etc...

  2. security concern by warren69 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    perhaps suggesting home users (dsl, cable, and dial up users) to use their own MTA is poor as far as security goes. I can see perhaps if you are having a lot of problems with your ISP's outoing mail, but I'd think the security concern would outway the normal service level.

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