How does MLM send mail?

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DavidP

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Sorry to ask what must be a basic question.

I activated php on my MacBook with the builtin Apache Server - I can create lists and subscribe - but How does the MLM send mail to confirm the subscription? Do I need sendmail or something? I have a mailserver on the network but can't see how to get those settings into the MLM.

thanks

David
 
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DavidP

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I'd like to have the MLM php send mail via my mail server rather than directly from the webserver computer as it does now. Can I change the smtp host easily - I see in the php.ini that you can do that for Windows only.

Is there a way to change the php code to relay it to a mail server?

thanks

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DavidP

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I couldn't find anything at php.org -

If we use MLM it will be on static IP/DSL line and some ISP's won't accept mail from this IP address as they think it is probably spam. If we send via our ISP's mailserver - no problem. So my concern is that the e-mail opt-in requests won't get thru.

At the moment I can't seem to get it to send to an external address at all - perhaps that is blocked - I'm not sure.

I can see that if my site was hosted at the ISP it probably would work fine - but for my set up I don't think it will.

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DavidP

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.... actually I was wrong about not being able to send to an external mail address - it does work for me.....

but still I'd prefer the mails to redirect via my server
 
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DavidP

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OK - figured it out if anyone else wants to do it

On OSX 10.5.x you can edit the main.cf file in the private/etc/Postifix folder, you can set it to relay to a mail server.

David
 
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