[K12OSN] Using a remote mail server and letting apache have access to it

[Peter Scheie]

You can also test your sendmail configuration by sending messages via 
sendmail from the command line:

/usr/lib/sendmail -v person at somehost.com
Subject: testing sendmail

Put the body of your message here.  To send the message, put a dot (a 
period) on a line by itself, like the one that follows this line.
.

You'll see sendmail forward the message to itself, and then you can 
check the log to see if it's forwarding it to your SMARTHOST.  Send the 
message to yourself at an outside address to see what actually ends up 
in the message.

Petre

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 18:04, jones yeates wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I apologize if this is the wrong place to be asking this.  I've been
>> searching on the web for answers and I can't seem to find any.  A
>> friend told me about this list serve and thought I'd give it a try.
>>
>> I had php,mysql and apache running on a Windows box last year and I
>> have just changed it to a Linux box this year.  Everything works
>> except for my abiity to send mail that I have generated through my php
>> script.  
>>
>> I do not want my Linux server to act as a mail server.  There is one
>> in my school board and I would like to just send mail through there. 
>> I noticed that in Linux I have to send it to a program that will
>> re-route the message appropriately.  I was also able to have a
>> different domain name appear in the e-mail's subject section, so that
>> the kids could not track it back to my server. 
>>
>> So basically what I would like is:
>> - send e-mails through php/apache
>> - not have the server's domain name appear in the "from" part of the
>> e-mail or even in the subject
>> - have a different domain name appear in the e-mail message 
>> - just relay all messages to the school board's mail server
>> - I don't want to use the mail server feature on my server other than
>> to forward e-mails to the school board's mail server
>>
>> I have installed Fedora Core 5 
>> - php 5.1.4
>> - mysql 5.0.22
>> - apache 2.2.2
>> - sendmail
>>
>> I have entered:  define('confTRUSTED_USERS','apache'); into the
>> sendmail.mc file and tried to do a make -C /etc/mail and it doesn't
>> seem to work.  If it is working there is a huge delay (for days). 
>>
>> I can get mail or mailx to send messages but not through apache.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to set this up?
> 
> If you set:
> define(`SMART_HOST',`your.forwarding.server')
> in sendmail.mc it will forward outbound messages through
> the designated server, and
> MASQUERADE_AS(`host.domain')
> will rewrite the headers on outbound mail to the
> specified name.
> 
> You should be able to see the messages logged in
> /var/log/maillog - if the web app is handing them to
> sendmail.
>