[sldev] [LSL] [POSTFIX PROBLEMS] Object Email Receive from external domain problems

[Jason Giglio]

Kamilion wrote:
> Holy crap. This is far worse than I expected.
> I didn't want to use XMLRPC because I figured that a single point of
> failure and lag of a couple minutes wasn't worth it.
> 
>> From what I knew, postfix ran on every simulator; so it was more
> distributed and hopefully more robust.
> 
> Now it looks like something is SERIOUSLY wrong in email land.
> 
> Last I knew, Michael, James, and Charity Linden were messing with
> postfix back in april's blog post.
> 
> Now -- What can we do about this? I'm glad I said something, otherwise
> this might have been a quiet annoyance.
> 
> I know postfix can be blazingly fast, I used to use it on my own
> domain before moving over to Google Apps for your Domain, So there's
> obviously some kind of misconfiguration somewhere.
> 
> If you feel like sharing; I'd like a copy of that PHP and LSL you use;
> because this is EXACTLY the sort of setup I'm trying to achieve (PHP
> Mail to LSL).
> 
> So far, I've had to bash at PHP to even get it to talk to Google's AfyD 
> server.
> Google uses SSL/TLS *ONLY* for SMTP auth, so php's mail() function
> doesn't work so well.

Pear has a mail class that does all you want and more.  Why would anyone 
reinvent this wheel?


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