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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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  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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