luke (or any other helpful person),
the postfix admin prog wont work for me as i have MySQL 4
ok i have a larger problem now.
i have postfix installed and running, although it says not to use localhost as my server. anyways, i have the php mailing people their registration passwords like it should until i installed Postnuke 7.5 gold. Now it has a mailer administration menu which should make it easier, but now I cant get mail working at all! I am setting up a mail domain name thing with mail.adamfalwell.com, but I dont know if that is my problem. the php.ini setting is localhost, is that my problem?? should i make this the smtp address that i set up as MX?
the administration menu for the php mailer has you pick a default mail transport from these:
PHP Mail() which is selected
Sendmail
SMTP
Qmail
it also asks for a sendmail path which is set at /usr/sbin/sendmail
STMP Server which is set to localhost <-- change??
enable smtp authentication check box (unchecked)
STMP user: (blank)
STMP password: (also blank)
it also allows you to test your mailer, which i do with no success.
my old postnuke sites runnin 7.3 i believe and it still successfully sends the no reply mails like passwords for registrations and reccomendations and stuff. but the new "7.5 Gold" postnuke site iset up with the fancy shmancy mailer administration module is dead as a door nail.
please help!!
***** EDIT *****
i tried testing my mail by sending it to a yahoo email account. it was recieved successfully. is it possible that my mailer might be viewed as spam by my other
www.mail.com account?? how can this be fixed/? when i do get my MX address configured to my domain mail.mysites.com do i put that in where localhost is in php.ini? and also, i run multiple web sites each with their own MX address pointing to this machine... i am sure there are simple answers to this but i do not know them.
Basically, while having my own server handle a personal email account is nice and I would like to do it, I really just need my php server to send mail out such as registration information, contact us modules to my email (which thinks mail from my site is spam), and so forth. After it is properly set up and configured, I am sure I will be able to figure out how to create a webmail account and so forth. If you went through this lengthy post and want to help me I will be very appreciative.
ROUNDUP:
what address other than localhost for php.ini?
multiple web sites point to same mail server ok?
what to put in the php mailer configuration section?
how do i make sure that mail programs dont think i am sending SPAM?