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+[[tag wishlist]]
+
+For sending out password reminder emails, the [[plugins/passwordauth]] plugin currently uses
+the *[Mail::Sendmail](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mail::Sendmail)* module.
+This module, however, has the limitation that it can only talk *SMPT*,
+but can't use the standard Unix *sendmail* (command-line) interface.
+I don't want to have an MTA with a SMTPd running on my web server system.
+Would it be possible to switch to using one of the existing Perl modules that support
+the *sendmail* interface?
+
+From doing a quick search, these might be some candidates:
+
+  * <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mail::Transport::Sendmail>
+  * <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Email::Send::Sendmail>
+  * <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mail::SendVarious>
+  * <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?EasyMail>
+
+None of them are packaged for Debian so far, but that should be doable easily, as far as I know.
+
+ikiwiki might perhaps even try to use all of them in turn until it finds a working one.
+
+I'd offer to work on a patch for the [[plugins/passwordauth]] plugin and other places
+in the ikiwiki source code, where emailing is done.
+
+--[[tschwinge]]