RE: [Exim] PHP Form to send emails with Exim

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Author: Dan Muey
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To: Matthew Byng-Maddick, exim
Subject: RE: [Exim] PHP Form to send emails with Exim

> > if I were you is simply use a module that does an SMTP session with
> > localhost, that way there's no Exim config to do.
>
> This is almost never the right thing to do.
>


I guess I see it as an advantage because you are shortening
the process and possible places it can break.

SMTP with whatever language you want :) -> Exim

Pipe with whatever language (is the language/script configured right?
IE path to sendmail, sendmail options, permissions, etc...)->
sendmail (is it linked to Exim properly? Etc Etc -> Exim


It seems piping from one program to another program that sends
it to another program has many more points of failure than an SMTP
session with Exim directly. Regardless of what languages are
used in what steps.

Maybe I'm missing something?


> Consider that SMTP is NOT JUST the wire protocol.
>
> MBM