Re: [gentoo-user] to mail or not to mail

[kashani]

Antoine wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to get php to send an email and am completely lost. It seems
> as though I had it working on an mdk box at work today, cos I got the
> messages on my yahoo account, but now I am trying to set up a similar
> thing at home I am getting nowhere. I have never done anything apart
> from setting up pop/smtp servers in gui mail clients and once in a
> networking class we sent an email via telnet.
> Having done the extremely simple cl mail sending I was under the
> impression that this would be simple!
> I just can't work out why it is so difficult... first of all ssmtp was
> blocking everything. So I uninstall and install postfix. I try to get
> postfix going but get lots of abusive messages about it not liking
> certain parameters (the default php ones). Now I read the ssmtp man page
> and ask myself - why shouldn't this work? All I want to do is send a
> simple little email - if telnet can do it then this can...
> Now I reinstall ssmtp and nothing is working. From mutt, sendmail (see
> below) and the php script I get the below.
>
> tux ~ # sendmail antt@localhost
> hithere
>
> sendmail: Cannot open mail:25
>
> I don't want to do ANYTHING but have php send emails. I don't really
> care about security (for the moment) and really just want it to work
> without thinking about it! Can someone give me some advice?

Stick with ssmtp as you don't need a full MTA. You'll need to configure 
ssmtp as it needs a relay host to actually send any email. That'll 
lickly be your ISP mail server.

sendmail antt@localhost is a bad test because ssmtp is not able to 
deliver locally. ssmtp is realyy just a sendmail work a like binary that 
can be used from the commandline.

kashani
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