On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote: > To: Discussions regarding Repoforge for users <[email protected]> > From: Yury V. Zaytsev <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [users] Alpine PASSFILE compile time configuration > > On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 21:41 +0100, Keith Roberts wrote: > >> From what I have read on the net, Al[ine will only use the >> password file if it exist in the users home directory. >> >> http://objectmix.com/pine/244296-how-make-pine-not-ask-password.html > > Ok, that doesn't look so bad, but now I see that Dag has explicitly > turned this option off in favor of "platform-specific password caching". > I wonder if these options are incompatible... > > Dag, do you think we can turn it back on? > >> Are you suggesting that I sent up my own SMTP server here on >> localhost, to do the mail sending for me? If so what would you suggest >> please Yury? > > No, I am suggesting you to set up an MTA (be it sendmail, postfix or > whatever you like most), which would relay your locally submitted mail > through an external SMTP server and consequently take care of > authentication; you can additionally make it listen for SMTP > connections, but this is not strictly necessary. > > I.e.: http://www.joshfrank.com/articles/sendmail_smart_host
Ok. Thanks for that info Yury. I'll take a look at that sometime soon. Keith ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.repoforge.org/mailman/listinfo/users
