Since you have jailed access you will have some potential difficulty
installing anything not already installed.
I am a confused though - it sounds as though the forum host already is
running an SMTP server. Is that the case or are you saying that the
HOSTING organization runs a SMTP server, but the specific SERVER that
runs your forum does not?
In any event - log into your jailed ssh access and run:
uname -a
That should spit back what flavor of *nix you are running.
Most likely it comes with an SMTP service already present.
I think we need more details before can provide substantive help.
On Jan 16, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Tony B wrote:
I recently discovered on my online forum that email no longer works
user-user because the host's SMTP server requires a valid From: addy.
The only solution presented so far has been to set up my own SMTP
server.
But googling has been fairly fruitless, only turning up a ton of
Windows apps and some old stuff at Sourceforge. Anyone have any
suggestions for me for something simple? It's a shared host, I'm not
exactly sure what type of *nix it runs, but it's got PHP5 and MySQL (4
I think). And I only have jailed ssh access.
Or was my first impulse right and it's a crazy idea to try to do
smtp on my own?
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