On 1 Jun 2010, at 10:07, Chris Idou wrote: > BTW, what exactly are the downsides of sending the mail to local machine > sendmail?
This is pretty off topic, but: 1. You can't rely on the mail system being properly configured on a normal client machine. IIRC on older versions of (non-Server) Mac OS X it just plain didn't work. 2. Even if it *is* configured, it will most likely attempt to deliver the e-mail direct from the local system to the responsible MX. That is, unless someone has gone out of their way to set it up, it won't use their ISP's mailservers. ISPs in some cases actively block outgoing attempts to send mail direct to remote SMTP servers and occasionally require the use of passwords and/or TLS, and many SMTP servers are configured not to accept mail from ISP dynamic IP ranges anyway since most of it is spam sent by compromised end-user systems. So while it sounds like a great idea (and has all the right semantics as regards delivery and so on), in practice it isn't really an option. Kind regards, Alastair. -- http://alastairs-place.net _______________________________________________ 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: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
