{"id":16,"date":"2004-12-14T17:21:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-14T22:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=16"},"modified":"2004-12-14T17:21:33","modified_gmt":"2004-12-14T22:21:33","slug":"test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/waw\/2004\/12\/14\/test\/","title":{"rendered":"posting to blog via email part iii"},"content":{"rendered":"

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) <\/p>\n

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sudo niutil -create \/ \/users\/blogstuff   <\/pre>\n
sudo niutil -createprop \/ \/users\/blogstuff uid 505   <\/pre>\n
sudo niutil -createprop \/ \/users\/blogstuff realname "Blog User"   <\/pre>\n
sudo niutil -createprop \/ \/users\/blogstuff home "\/Users\/blogstuff"   <\/pre>\n
sudo niutil -createprop \/ \/users\/blogstuff shell "\/dev\/null"   <\/pre>\n
sudo niutil -createprop \/ \/users\/blogstuff gid 20   <\/pre>\n
sudo niutil -createprop \/ \/users\/blogstuff passwd "*"    <\/pre>\n
sudo passwd blogstuff  <\/pre>\n<\/div>\n
\nSet up the alias   sudo pico \/etc\/postfix\/aliases   add a line like this<\/p>\n
blogstuff:"|\/Users\/blogmail\/wordpress\/wp-mail.php"  \n<\/div>\n
\nEdit \/etc\/hostconfig set    \t \t<\/p>\n
MAILSERVER=-YES-   \n<\/div>\n
\nrestart postfix    \t<\/p>\n
sudo \/System\/Library\/StartupItems\/Postfix\/Postfix stop <\/pre>\n
sudo \/System\/Library\/StartupItems\/Postfix\/Postfix start   <\/pre>\n
\nEdit the wp-mail.php script   and send mail to   \tblogstuff@localhost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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