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Use Local SMTP
Authored by: sharumpe on Mar 28, '02 11:59:36AM

This may be considered OT, but I find that a good solution is to use the local sendmail instance as my SMTP server. I won't go in to how to get sendmail running because there is at least one discussion here on Mac OS X Hints, but it's not very difficult to get a basic setup.

This solves the problem of SMTP servers from different service providers very nicely.

Mr. Sharumpe



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Re: Use Local SMTP
Authored by: Paul Burney on Mar 28, '02 04:46:07PM

I'm doing this too, but I notice that I get errors (Can't resolve domain of...) when I do. If I find the sendmail process and kill -HUP it, the problem disappears.

It only happens once, after a restart, so I'm wondering if the resolver isn't loading before sendmail.



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