Email and Unix ?

[JohnBerman]

Just went and bought Catalog V8

We are on a Unix box and use sendmail, now I have seen references to sendmail in this forum but dont seem to have found the answer, pointers appreciated.

Regards

John Berman

[NormanRouxel]

Actinic doesn't use sendmail. It makes a direct connection on port 25 to an outgoing SMTP server. If you have that avaliable it's best to use that.

If you don't have an SMTP server, then you're server basically isn't compatible with Actinic.

However I have written a patch that will use the Perl Mail::Mailer module instead of the Actinic SMTP port driver. It's on www.drillpine.biz/actinicstuff - note that it is written for an older version of Actinic, so you'll have to figure out how to use it with V8. However the Perl scripts haven't changed too much between versions.

[pinbrook]

Why don't you use SMTP, you host should provide this.

People only use sendmail where their host doesn't give them SMTP. Find out more from your host first.

now I have seen references to sendmail in this forum but dont seem to have found the answer

you will need to reword this Q as I don't really know what you are asking