I have sendmail set up on MacOS X. I can open a Terminal window and type mail ceciladams@straightdope.com and it will ask “Subject?” and I type “Hi Cecil” and then I type the body of the email and hit Ctrl-D and off it goes, emailed from localhost.ahunter instead of going out via one of my ISPs’ SMTP servers. Of course, Cecil would not be impressed with this, since if he hits Reply the email addressed back to ahunter3@localhost.ahunter will bounce back to him because the domain name is unknown.
(This would be different if I had a static IP or better yet a genuine domain recognizable to DNS services everywhere. I don’t).
So what would be really cool would be if I could tell Eudora to utilize this sendmail capability to send the outbound emails. (No more futzing with silly-ass restrictions like those from Verizon, e.g., “You can only send mail from verizon’s SMTP server when you’re connected via verizon’s DSL. And you can’t use verizon’s SMTP server unless you’re connected via verizon.”) Because if I could use Eudora, I can edit the From header and the Reply-to header and then Cecil could reply and the message would go back to my regular ISP-provided, universally-recognized email address. (And I can access my POP server no matter where I am).
Eudora does not like: “localhost” as the SMTP server. Tries for a long time then errors out; “localhost.ahunter” as the SMTP server. Quickly errors with a DNS error / no such domain msg; nothing as the SMTP server–(for that personality)–defaults to the <Dominant> personality’s SMTP server; nothing as the SMTP server for <Dominant> as well–queries the local network from which I get my IP address, I guess, and get a “relaying denied” message.
Not sure this is possible (may simply not be supported in Eudora), but does anyone know one way or the other?
