Re: E-mail Responses From Drupal . . .

On Thursday 29 July 2004 1:18 pm, Adrian Rossouw wrote:
> I had problems sending mails to aol, and hotmail addresses.
>
> It turned out that the server doesnt have reverse dns set up (being a
> business DSL account.. it would be impossible to get it set up). It's
> also mac os x , and on unix systems php sends mail through the local
> mail queue.. which in this case is sendmail.
>
> not knowing how to configure sendmail, or install exim .. i ended up
> using the smtp trick[1] in drupal's contrib repository to pipe all our
> mail through the provided smtp server.
>
> hope that helps ..
>
>
> 1. http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/contributions/tricks/

Thanks for the heads up.  I've put this into place and requested some tests.  
I'll report back on the results.  I guess I really should check out the DNS 
and make sure it's correct also, but I don't have a lot of control over that.

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