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sean

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Why does civimail require postfix?
November 20, 2007, 10:16:31 am
Hi,
   I have used Postfix and it isn't a bad mail server but I'm more familiar with Exim ..

I've looked at the install stuff
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/CiviMail+Installation#CiviMailInstallation-Postfix

- and I can't see why this couldn't be done with any decent mailserver

I've also seen
http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC/Alternative+configuration+-+no+Amavis+or+root+access

from this it looks like civimail is happy as long as it can send mail via SMTP - and get back reponses

What am I missing??

- or could Exim be configured to pipe return emails to civimail (working out this configuration would probably be easier for me than switching mail servers) 

Cheers

Sean

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Re: Why does civimail require postfix?
November 20, 2007, 04:59:54 pm
I haven't figured the CiviMail out completely either, however, with help from this forum I was able to manually submit the cron job and send with smtp.    I'm not sure if the issue is processing return bounces or not.  I have been distracted by other unrelated server issues for a while and am ready to get back into it. 

I wonder how we know if we have PostFix available?
Although this makes it sound unlikely in my virtual server situation:
http://linux.cudeso.be/linuxdoc/postfix.php#Introduction
Before you can install the Postfix packages, you need to remove the existing sendmail-packages. If you havn't installed them, you can skip to the part where we start installing Postfix.

Perhaps you would be interested in joining a CiviCRM / CiviMail study group?
http://forum.civicrm.org/index.php/topic,1490.0.html
« Last Edit: November 20, 2007, 05:07:16 pm by Denver Dave »

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Re: Why does civimail require postfix?
November 20, 2007, 06:50:31 pm

We had to pick a mailer to interface and test with for CiviMail. We liked postfix, so we picked it :) We integrate inbound processing with postfix at the virtual regexp level and use amavisd. Outbound processing is relatively easy and is done via SMTP. Another option is to use the community contributed and supported imap2soap which i suspect is generic and easier to integrate with other mailing engines

Contributing (and supporting) code to allow exim to be used as a mailer for civimail would be appreciated by a few folks in the community

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sean

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Re: Why does civimail require postfix?
November 21, 2007, 03:37:30 am
- well it sounds like it's worth investigating then...

:-)

I'll let you know how I get on.



SeanBurlington

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Re: Why does civimail require postfix?
January 20, 2008, 07:55:30 am
OK - I've looked into this in more detail

and I'm quite sure that integration with Exim or other MTAs is feasible

This document on Exim and Mailan gives instruction on how to feed incoming mail to a script
http://www.exim.org/howto/mailman21.html

The script could be based on these:
https://svn.civicactions.net/repos/civicrm/scripts/imap2soap.pl
http://svn.civicrm.org/civicrm/branches/v1.9/tools/amavisd-new/amavisd-new-2.4.2/amavisd

BUT - it looks to me like the IMAP route is a better solution as any such script would involve a SOAP call to the server which isn't very scalable.


Sean (forgot I had already registered for this forum...)
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