[lug] Linux & NT email

[Nate Duehr]

On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 21:48, Peter Hutnick wrote:
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> On Thursday 18 April 2002 08:45 pm, neelsmith74 at netscape.net wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I need help setting up a local city's web mail sys via NT Exchange.  I made
> > the first step in getting the web server converted to Linux-YEA.  However,
> > they will not let me run Linux for email.  I therefore have to get email
> > from my php web applications to route to the Exchange email server.  Is
> > there a way to do this with out setting up Qmail on the Linux server-just
> > pass all the email to MX (of city exchange email server).  I was thinking I
> > could do this in the php.ini file or in the http.conf file.  Or do I need
> > to set up Qmail and relay email through the exchange server (limiting the
> > relay to the web servers IP for security reasons).  ANY IDEAS????
> 
> It isn't going to be a global PHP or Apache setting.  Neither have a sense of 
> "this is my mailserver."  It depends on how the individual PHP script(s) 
> is/are written.
> 
> It really depends on the PHP script and the Exchange server.  If the PHP 
> script can be configured to talk SMTP to the Exchange server, and the 
> Exchange server will relay the mail you are in good shape.
> 
> If either isn't the case it will probably just be easiest to set up an SMTP 
> server locally.

Oops.  I can tell by the replies, I completely misread the original
question.  Argh.

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com