[Koha] Mail from koha

Somasekhar Rao K raosoma at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 14:43:53 NZST 2011


Hi Robin,

Thanks for the response.

You mean to say install postfix and route mails from localhost to postfix?
In that case what would be KohaAdminEmailAddress?

Regards,
Somasekhar Rao K

2011/7/19 Robin Sheat <robin at catalyst.net.nz>

> Somasekhar Rao K schreef op ma 18-07-2011 om 12:29 [+0530]:
> > 3. In Sendmail.pm, I have configured it as follows.   'smtp'    =>
> > [ qw( abc.com ) ],
>
> I really think this is a terrible way to do this.
>
> Three concrete reasons, excluding the fact that it just feels wrong:
>
> * it will delay the queue process while it talks to the remote server to
> send messages. Depending on exactly how it works, this may cause
> duplicate messages, or just a piling up of delayed processes if there
> are network issues causing slowdown.
> * koha may not have proper failure handling, causing messages to get
> lost if there's a network glitch.
> * if you ever upgrade libmail-sendmail-perl, or whatever it is on your
> system, you'll have to redo this change.
>
> The way I'd suggest instead is leave it default so that it sends via
> localhost, and have your local mail server (postfix or exim typically)
> forward it on where it needs to go. Mail servers are built with very
> smart error handling, queuing and so forth, also they allow you to have
> more complex rules about what goes where, should you want that.
>
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