On 07/26/2007 19:22, David Seikel wrote: > The one big remaining problem is getting the summary sent to the > mailing list. sf.net is fussy about this, it's not good enough to just > use /usr/bin/mail, sf.net makes you jump through hoops. This is why I > have been cutting and pasting, or sending to myself then forwarding. > > The emails are being sent from the script running on > e2.enlightenment.org as user onefang using /usr/bin/mail, so it ends up > with a from address of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note, not > @e2.enlightenment.org. > > The first obvious hoop is that the sender has to be on the mailing > list. To subscribe to a mailing list I need to receive the > confirmation email, and respond to it or click on the supplied URL. So > I would need to get the [EMAIL PROTECTED] emails. > enlightenment.org's MX records point to easydns.com, which is our DNS > hosting provider. Reading through their website, they could provide > email forwarding for us. Currently, emails to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] just seem to disappear into the ether. > > Another option would be for whoever has control of the mailing list to > simply add [EMAIL PROTECTED] Set it up so that they can post, > but don't receive email. > > The next hoop is that sf.net will then check to see if a user called > onefang is allowed to send email from enlightenment.org. Once again, > easydns.com may be able to help us jump through this hoop with their > email forwarding service. > > In my testing I've never gotten past this hoop, so I don't know what > other hoops there may be. Typically there is no response from these > hoops, nothing ever gets bounced, and nothing is ever left in log files > we can check. So the hoop jumping has to be done blind. > > Actually running our own SMTP server on e2.enlightenment.org would help > to solve these problems, but I doubt we want to do that.
Would something like ssmtp help here? > > Thoughts? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel -- Regards, Ravenlock
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