Thanx... I'll take a look at this when I get home tonite!!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Christopher Quale
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 12:42 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Setting Up Sendmail
>
>
>
> One other possibility: you should have SMTP service provided
> by your ISP. You can set up sendmail to use your ISP's mail
> delivery service. One tool that may be helpful in setting it
> all up is a utility called install-sendmail. Go to
> http://freshmeat.net and do a search for "install-sendmail".
> Check the homepage to get the version that matches your
> version of sendmail. I believe that you also need procmail
> and fetchmail as well as the sendmail-cf and m4 packages
> installed. Here's what I have:
>
> sendmail-cf-8.9.3-9mdk
> sendmail-8.9.3-9mdk
> m4-1.4-13mdk
> procmail-3.13.1-3mdk
> fetchmail-5.0.3-2mdk
>
> The install-sendmail script asks you questions (at the command
> line) about how you want to set up your mail server, then
> generates the necessary config files for you. It has worked
> beautifully for me, as I am certainly no sendmail guru. One
> good way to test it is to install the mailx package and
> from the command line on the mailserver you can use the "mail"
> command to test out sendmail.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Wizaerd wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I need some information, but you'll need some background
> information...
> > I have a linux box at home hooked up to the internet with DHCP
> through US
> > West VDSL. The IP has never actually changed, but it could at any time
> > because of the DHCP. I have a Windows 98 box connected via a second NIC
> > card to the Linux machine, which uses the Linux box as a
> > gateway/router/firewall to the internet. So because of the
> DHCP connection,
> > I don't have DNS running and I don't use Sendmail.
> >
> > On the Linux box, I have Apache 1.3.12 installed and am in the
> process of
> > learning PHP. However, one of the things I want to do is convert my
> > ColdFusion discussion forum over to PHP, but was hoping I could
> send myself
> > email notifications during the testing period (so when I do
> copy this app to
> > a real server it would work as expected...)...
> >
> > Is there someway to use sendmail and the mailing options of PHP without
> > using DNS and having a static IP? Or better yet is there a way to use
> > sendmail and DNS without having a static IP?
> >
> > Thanx!
> >
> > Joseph (Joe) Sheble
> > a.k.a. Wizaerd
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