On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 01:18:20PM -0700, root linux wrote:
> How can I add/edit sqwebmail sendit.sh to use a SMTP
> server for outgoint email?

Are you saying you're running a Unix server with absolutely *no* MTA
installed? That's generally a bad idea - cronjobs might want to send
outgoing mail, for example, to notify errors.

If you want to relay all outgoing mail via a 'smarthost' SMTP server then
the usual thing to do is to configure your MTA to send all outgoing mail via
that server. Details of that would be specific to exactly what MTA you are
using (and not relevant to a courier list)

If you really have no MTA, then you could replace sendit.sh with a small
program which opens an SMTP connection to the remote smarthost directly
(e.g. using a Perl SMTP module). But that's almost certainly a bad idea.
Consider what happens when the remote SMTP server is down: sqwebmail will be
unable to send the mail so the user will be told the sending failed.

However if you submit the mail to a local MTA, then it will go into the
MTA's queue and will be delivered when the smarthost becomes available
again.

Regards,

Brian.

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