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[[!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://nic-nac-project.de/~schwinge/ikiwiki/0001-Use-Email-Send-instead-of-Mail-Sendmail.patch>*
Remaining TODOs:
* Resolve TODOs as denoted inside the patch.
* Update for the last years of ikiwiki development, such as adapting the
[[plugins/notifyemail]] plugin.
* Is this
[[UTF-8-safe|bugs/password_reset_fails_with___34__Wide_character_in_subroutine_entry__34__]]?
* 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]]
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