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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."

3 of 18 comments (clear)

  1. how about postfix ? by mAIsE · · Score: 1, Interesting

    anyone know of a good howto on postfix on OSX ?

  2. Re:Something of note.... by PD · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's a trade-off. I couldn't filter squat until I started running my own mail server on my my DSL connection.

    I don't see spam anymore, but I see lots of evidence in my mail logs that people have tried to send me some.

    And I haven't noticed any of my mail bouncing because I run on a DSL line.

    BTW, I use Exim as my MTA. Can't recommend it highly enough - it just works.

    --
    If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
  3. Re:What's the Advantage? by Pengo · · Score: 5, Interesting


    Hmm.. for me it's http://www.spamassassin.org

    The # 1 reason to run your own mail server. :)

    I was getting 40+ spams per day, and now I don't get any.. period. end of story.

    It took me a full day to get it all setup (email, spam assassin, etc), but once I got through it all.. configured imap, etc. It was pretty sweet.

    I have it running on my solaris box under my desk, but it would easily be installable onto any unix/linux/osx/whatever box you have kicking around.

    Cheers