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Sucess with sendmail on Windows XP
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By groovegear , Section Help! []
Posted on Wed May 05, 2004 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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The common problem of Scoop on Windows is account setup and emailing. Well I think no more! I have been able to send set up three accounts so far without having to restart Apache. Not entirely convincing yet (I am still evaluating scoop 0.9), but 300% better than the common result I have been reading and experiencing...one account and then scoop throws a hissy fit.
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I have found a free sendmail.exe for Windows here.
The details are in Japanese, however and the fish won't work. I had to get a software translater to tranlate for me. I'd post a translation somewhere but the page is copyrighted
I am not a code monkey, nor an admin of a scoop site...yet, but steps I suggest you follow:
Sendmail Perl module
install sendmail perl module ppm install Sendmail
find the file sendmail.pm
search for 'smtp' and then edit the content in the round brackets to your smtp server name, be it your local smtp server or ISP's smtp server
save and exit
Sendmail.exe
download sendmail.zip.
unpack, sendmail.ini must be in c:\bin (sendmail.exe can go anywhere, just remember where you put it)
Scoop admin
log into your scoop site with superuser privileges (sorry I haven't bothered to figure out how to do it from mysql)
Go to Site controls|General
search for sendmail_program and enter the path to your sendmail.exe
save
Apache
edit the httpd-location.conf or httpd.conf (where ever you keep the scoop config for Apache)
search for PerlSetVar SMTP and replace the ENTIRE line with PerlSetVar SMTP -
save
stop Apache, then start it again
Finish
I have made not even a half assed attempt with XP Pro's bundled SMTP server. Like I say, I am not an admin, but already it looks like more work (but perhaps not that much) than using this sendmail program. |
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