Well all fine and dandy, but… …I can’t send mail to my "spare server" when off campus because of the stupid firewall. But for all practical purposes, my laptop is a "spare server." It has php, it has cron, it has mail, I have root access. So, step one, create a blog account (from the terminal)
sudo niutil -create / /users/blogstuff
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff uid 505
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff realname "Blog User"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff home "/Users/blogstuff"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff shell "/dev/null"
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff gid 20
sudo niutil -createprop / /users/blogstuff passwd "*"
sudo passwd blogstuff
Set up the alias sudo pico /etc/postfix/aliases add a line like this
blogstuff:"|/Users/blogmail/wordpress/wp-mail.php"
Edit /etc/hostconfig set
MAILSERVER=-YES-
restart postfix
sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/Postfix/Postfix stop
sudo /System/Library/StartupItems/Postfix/Postfix start
Edit the wp-mail.php script and send mail to blogstuff@localhost
