well i have never configured any MTA bfore .. so i needed some good info..
which do u think is more supported ... sendmail or postfix???
On 2/15/07, James Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
apologies for sending this twice. in future, make sure you 'reply-all'
on the mailing list emails so that your responses go back to the list.
cheers,
jim.
On 15/02/07, James Rutherford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 14/02/07, Sahil Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > yes i am running Mandriva 2007.. but i need to deploy Dspace on
RHEL 4 - ES
> > in my Library...
> > what all changes do i need to make to the postfix & DSpace config.
> > files....??
>
> RHEL4 will probably have sendmail setup and configured already. You
> can check to see if it is by running (as root) lsof -i tcp:25
>
> you should see something like the following if it is running:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsof -i tcp:25
> COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME
> sendmail 2995 root 3u IPv4 6365 TCP
> localhost.localdomain:smtp (LISTEN)
>
> If this is the case, you just need to configure the mail server in
> your dspace.cfg to be localhost, and add the username and password as
> required for the sendmail configuration. Note that if you're running
> sendmail purely for your DSpace repository, you should configure your
> firewall to block external connections to port 25 to avoid being used
> as a relay.
>
> There is nothing special about DSpace SMTP requirements, so for
> whichever software you use, you should be able to find ample
> documentation and sample configuration files. I'm afraid I don't
> really know much about postfix, but I do know that it is a
> well-documented project, so you should have no problems using it if
> you really want to.
>
> Jim.
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