Questions about sendmail

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Author: der.hans
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Subject: Questions about sendmail
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Wizaerd wrote:

> While testing it on this local machine, I'd like to be able to send an email
> notification to three various email addresses I have (through work and other
> domains I own and are hosted with web hosting ISPs...). However the mail()
> in PHP requires a sendmail directory instead of an SMTP server, so am not


Does it require a sendmail dir or a sendmail binary? e.g. is it making a
call to /usr/sbin/sendmail? If so you don't need sendmail running. Also
you could use the "sendmail" executable from qmail, postfix, exim or
whatever mailer you want to use.

> quite sure how to proceed... I've never used sendmail before at all, and
> have an O'Reily book for it, but it's confusing as h*ll...


Ain't it? :)

ciao,

der.hans
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