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10.4: An alternative postfix/smtpd solution on port 25
Great hint. This is exactly what I wanted to do. A couple of notes… I did have to use the UserName key as mentioned in the last comment. Using sudo gave an error. Another thing I noticed - it seems that Thunderbird is too impatient to wait for smtpd to launch. It claims there's no server available, though if you watch with the process viewer, you can see smtpd pop up when you try to send. This is a problem with Thunderbird I suspect, not the config in this hint.
10.4: An alternative postfix/smtpd solution on port 25
I did have to use the UserName key as mentioned in the last comment. Using sudo gave an error. It does appear that using sudo is somewhat of a hack. this comment has the corrected lines in the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/smtp.plist file to use UserName instead of sudo. Another thing I noticed - it seems that Thunderbird is too impatient to wait for smtpd to launch. It claims there's no server available, though if you watch with the process viewer, you can see smtpd pop up when you try to send. This is a problem with Thunderbird I suspect, not the config in this hint. This seems strange to me. A good way to test your connection is to use telnet:
On my machine (iBook G4) it doesn't take very long at all to come up:
If your configuration behaves like mine, and Thunderbird really has a problem with a connection time of less than 0.237 seconds, I'm not sure it would ever connect to a slow ISP's SMTP server (especially over dialup). It's likely that it's something else.
10.4: An alternative postfix/smtpd solution on port 25
Yeah, I tested with telnet several times before doing anything with a mail client. Everything looked fine there. Things also seem to work fine in Mail. It's just Thunderbird.
10.4: An alternative postfix/smtpd solution on port 25
Same here for TBird 1.5RC :-( |
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