Another thing to bring up is that users may not want an open Sendmail server running on their machine just so a background process can send email without the user's intervention. Huh, this is almost like what malware does.
Doug Hill > On Jul 7, 2016, at 10:46 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > > >> On Jul 7, 2016, at 10:01 AM, Carl Hoefs <newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu> >> wrote: >> >> I seem to recall that in the distant past I accomplished issuing emails from >> a daemon process on Linux by directly interfacing to /usr/sbin/sendmail. Is >> this the 'Postfix mail tools' you mentioned? > > Yes, and sendmail on macOS is just a front-end to the Postfix system. The > trouble is that Postfix isn’t actually configured, so it looks like all > sendmail will do is write the email to a mail queue that’s not being > processed by anything. (You can read the main page for sendmail for details.) > > You can set up Postfix without much trouble, but I assume you want your > daemon to work on anyone’s machine without them having to spend 5 minutes > mucking about with command-line tools first... > > —Jens > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoadev%40breaqz.com > > This email sent to cocoa...@breaqz.com _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
