jkounis
January 5th, 2009, 05:49 AM
I have a LAMP server on our small office network with 5 or 6 clients. On the local web server, we have Mediawiki, Joomla, Drupal, and some other PHP applications.
These web applications usually expect the ability to send emails to users (I suppose through sendmail). However, I have not gone through the effort of setting up a mail server. Since the server is behind a firewall, it would involve some complicated setup, opening ports, and security measures to prevent the machine from being an open SMTP relay. (We get our email through the same server that hosts our website.)
Is there a simpler solution? Can I simply set up sendmail to forward through my ISP's SMTP server (mail.myisp.com)? Or must I have a local mail server set up for sendmail to work?
These web applications usually expect the ability to send emails to users (I suppose through sendmail). However, I have not gone through the effort of setting up a mail server. Since the server is behind a firewall, it would involve some complicated setup, opening ports, and security measures to prevent the machine from being an open SMTP relay. (We get our email through the same server that hosts our website.)
Is there a simpler solution? Can I simply set up sendmail to forward through my ISP's SMTP server (mail.myisp.com)? Or must I have a local mail server set up for sendmail to work?