Vinu Chandran rearranged electrons thusly:
> outgoing mails it does. I've a script written in PHP which uses the
> inbuilt mail() function of PHP, I want to tell sendmail to use SMTP
> always for all mails irrespective of local or outgoing. How to do that ?
pardon? sendmail uses the SMTP / ESMTP protocols to send out mails.
> I've seen "pine" uses some feature with which all mails are being
> redirected to SMTP. How it does ? Can I configure sendmail in such a way
> that it does the same ? Please help !!! I need this b'coz I'm using
oh my god, just what do you mean boss? pine does either of two things ...
1. Talks [e]smtp to the sendmail / whatever running on localhost port 25
(using sendmail -bs generally)
2. Relays mails through an external smtp server, if set.
> Perl Sendmail Milter script which waits for mails at SMTP port. Since
> "pine" uses SMTP for all mail delivery , my script works perfectly for
> pine. But when I'm usinf PHP's mail() function to send mail, for
> outgoing mails my script works but for local delivery it doesnot
> respond.
Post some excerpts from /var/log/maillog, sample (mail delivery) portions of
your script etc.
[and dont mail me offlist like last time - pls post it to the list]
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