[Koha] Mail from koha

[Somasekhar Rao K]

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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