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diff --git a/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn b/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..556240964 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +[[!tag wishlist plugins/passwordauth]] + +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]] + +> One that is in Debian is [[!cpan Email::Send]], which can do SMTP and +> sendmail and some other methods and falls back through methods until one +> succeeds. I haven't tried to use it but it looks like a feasable +> candidate. +> +> I don't much like the idea of supporting a lot of different email sending +> modules. --[[Joey]] + +OK, so I'll have a look at replacing all email handling with *Email::Send*. + +[[!tag patch]] +*<http://schwinge.homeip.net/~thomas/tmp/ikiwiki-sendmail.patch>* + +Remaining TODOs: + + * Resolve TODOs as denoted inside the patch. + * Is it worthwhile to use and depend on [[!cpan Return::Value]] + just for this bit of functionality? + * Debian news file. + * ikiwiki news file. + +--[[tschwinge]] + + +> BTW, I think you recently sent a patch improving mail logging, but I've +> lost it. --[[Joey]] + +Resent. --[[tschwinge]] + +> Debian now has Mail::Sender, Mail::SendEasy, and Email::Sender +> (which, according to its dpkg description, "replaces the old and sometimes +> problematic Email::Send library, which did a decent job at handling very +> simple email sending tasks, but was not suitable for serious use, for a +> variety of reasons"). Are any of those any better? It's unfortunate that +> there doesn't seem to be a clear "best practice"... --[[smcv]] |