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How to enable a SMTP client/server, POSTOFFICE a full SENDMAIL replacement

Postoffice is a simple SMTP mail server and client written by David Parson.
This feature was included from release 1.3.4.

This feature is available on foXServe, all you have to do is choose p from config menu as shown below



After the installation, exit from config with (x) and launch from /mnt/flash/postoffice
./smtp_start.sh

your SMTP server is enabled on localhost, and will relay mail sended only by your system. To test it you can launch:

postoffice -fmyname@domain.tld destination@domain.tld
<press enter> and type the text message to send then <enter> and ctrl+d keys to send the message.
The full postoffice command line syntax is described on these manual page


Postoffice is a FULL sendmail replacement so the SENDMAIL IS SUPPORTED!!!

Additional sendmail compliant commands are:

mailq - to list outgoing mails queue located in /var/spool/mqueue

newaliases - to edit/build alias database: rebuilds the random access data base for the mail aliases file /etc/aliases.
It must be run each time you edit /etc/aliases file.

The sendmail syntax allow you to set subject CC: BCC: and headers:
example: create a file named mail.txt in your /mnt/flash folder with this content:
date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 12:40:17 -0500 (EST)
to: name@domain.tld
cc: name1@domain.tld
subject: type your subject
from: myname@mydomain.tld
							
Body of the message

save and launch: sendmail -t < mail.txt

Thanks to these feature you can benefit of mail() function inside php



For example to compose a HTML formatted mail message you can use the following PHP script:

<?php
$body="<em>HTML</em> formatted <strong>Message</strong";

$headers = "From: info@example.com \r\n";
$headers.= "Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 ";
$headers .= "MIME-Version: 1.0 ";
mail("kanta@example.com", "An HTML Message", $body, $headers);
?>


Postoffice configuration file is located in /etc/postoffice.cf a lot of options are available on this manual page.


To enable the SMTP server on startup you have just to follow the how to on this link:
http://www.acmesystems.it/?id=57#10000 and use the following line instead of testprog.out

/mnt/flash/postoffice/smstp_start.sh



If you would like to use foXServe to send messages trought another mailserver all you have to do is put on /etc/postoffice.cf the directive:


relay-host <mailserver>


the system will use the provided mailserver as MTA.
Configuration files PATH
postoffice configuration: /etc/postoffice.cf

For more info go to postoffice website.



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