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Sendmail Enabler for Mac OS X
gulker writes "It's really nice to be able to use sendmail as a SMTP server on a PowerBook if you move around a lot. But enabling sendmail on OS X is non-trivial, and while a good tutorial exists, the stock Mac OS X 10.2 package is missing the m4 macro processor needed to regenerate sendmail.cf. So it was great news to hear about Bernard Teo's Sendmail Enabler, a cool Aqua-GUI-interface sendmail 'configurator' for Mac OS X."
Just install postfix instead. Secure, easy to set up, right there in Fink. What's not to like?
I'm happy to hear some allowed us to enable Sendmail. I know there are other SMTP servers out there (Postfix), but Sendmail is not a horrible mail server. Yes, there are bugs (any product that is used will have bugs reported eventually). Now, Exchange server.... that's a horrible mail server.
The best part about this news is that it gives Mac users more options. Regardless if you like a project or not, the ability to choose between server products helps advance the Apple server platform.
A machine attached to a dial-up Earthlink account that is trying to sendmail through to an AOL email account looks a lot like a setup for spam.
As a result, many SMTP servers won't accept SMTP connections from unknown SMTP servers attached to unknown networks.
(I used to have a similar setup on my PB and used a variety of dial-up/wi-fi internet access and it rarely worked. I setup a private secure SMTP server for me and my friends and it works great.)
Just as vsftpd is to wuftpd...
Postfix is to sendmail...
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The real advantage is that some Mac users will leave open port 25, allowing script kiddies to send their *Anonymous* emails from someone's Mac, instead of a useful computer such as a linux server.
... but you'd still need to grab the Sendmail-specific macro files and such.
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is sendmail all i need to start sending and receiving email on my own? i have a domain-name and website and I would like to run my own email. if i am running apple's mail, what do i need to do to get email from sendmail?
I just installed the MacOSX 10.3 Panther Developer Preview, and there is no trace of Sendmail.
Postfix comes installed, and disabled, by default. Nice!
I think exim is the best SMTP server for laptops, because it uses very little resources, is a snap to install, and is still highly configurable and very powerful. I use it on my PB12, and I'm very happy with it.
I've always been confused by this. How does this gain anything? that is, presumbaly no matter where you are home, work on the road you have a ISP somewhere. and you send e-mail via them. If you dont have an ISP then how does send mail know where it can send its packets too and have them accepted?
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp,Addr=127.0.0.1, Name=MTA')
to the m4 file before generating your
You also might want to add.
define(`confDONT_BLAME_SENDMAIL', `GroupWritableDirPathSafe')
Otherwise sendmail will break everytime you run Software Update. You can fix it by chmoding / 755. Alternatively you can add a "chmod 755
Back in the day (OpenStep) Mail.app let you call sendmail as an app, but AFAIK it now needs to relay off an address. There may be a way around this but I don't know it.
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I tend to agree with the assertion that you don't need sendmail on OS X; that's what Mail.app is for.
.Mac account, so I was awfully impressed with OS X's desire to get my mail through, rain, sleet, hail, or whatever the bytes were doing today.
The only time I've had a problem with my ISP's own smtp server, Mail.app automatically asked if I didn't want to use smtp.mac.com to send my mail. I don't have a
That said, Commando-ing the command line is nearly always a good thing. Setting up a sendmail server is pretty neat for people who might not use Mail.app (wacky mutt users!) or are Darwin diehards -- or just command-line curious. Between Fink and apps like this, you can do what you used to have to be a BSD expert to achieve.
But check Mail.app out again if you're using something else now. It's a much better app now than it was in OS X 10.0, when it was a pretty simple tech preview of the Address Book and spellcheck Cocoa textareas. And with Panther, the app seems to only be getting better.
It's all 0s and 1s. Or it's not.
I can connect to my work SMTP server from home, but it will only relay mail bound for my work domain. We do not allow external relaying (from and external source to an external recipient). When I am at work I can of course send to any recipient I like. Likewise, Comcast only allows access to their SMTP servers from Comcast IP addresses. They do not allow external relaying.
Relaying off myself (my loopback address) ensures I can send mail from any physical location to any recipient without reconfiguring anything. Or at least that was true until a few weeks ago, when AOL started bouncing mail from Comcast user addresses. No. There are several ways of adding authentication to SMTP services but Comcast does not rely on any of them. You also can't POP your Comcast mail (In New England anyway) from a non-Comcast address. If you have a non-Comcast IP you must use their webmail to send and receive mail. Personally I find it a burden reconfiguring my mail client twice a day. I think everything should work seamlessly with no user intervention and I don't mind doing a little up front work to make it so. This is even more true for our users at work. They would throw fits if we told them they had to reconfigure their client every time they changed locations. This way all I need to do is swap one file and they are set for life (or until Software Update clobbers their
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-James Baldwin
Please, all you people just starting up sendmail on your mac, please, OH PLEASE set it to only allow incoming connections from localhost or set it to have authorization required?
Don't turn your mac into a spam relay.
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...this GUI enabler is optimistic at all times, regardless of what is really happenind in the background.
Even tho mail isn't going anywhere, the app smiles and promises that all is well.
Perhaps something else already running on my box is the issue, but when it comes to enabling sendmail, this app will not work 100% of the time.
Comcast is a big compay which has many networks with a variety of policies. That is why I said "at least in New England." I should have been more specific but I didn't want you all to know where I live. This policy actually predates Comcast's aquisition of my provider. Trust me, they won't let me pop or relay from other providers. OTOH, in some parts of the country Comcast has tried to abolish home NATing, IIRC. Here it is no problem. The one thing they did change when they took over is the MAC registration requirement, which they eliminated.
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-James Baldwin
This is the most useful app I've seen in a long time. For months I've been trying to enable sendmail on my home server. Within minutes it was up and running thanks to this FREE app. Thank the makers!
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