[Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] FormMail & Blat

[Jonathan S. <jn...@ge...>]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 14:37, namtog wrote:

> 
> The only problem I have with FormMail is the lack of authentication,
> my ISP requires it for all email. Nothing fancy, simply log on with
> username and password. Unless I am missing this
> configuration option some where in FormMail. If so please enlighten me
> and forgive my stupidity.

No you are correct the SMTP facility in FormMail does not do AUTH at
all, this is probably something we should remedy at some point - I have
copied the developers list in case this is the kind of thing that
someone might be interested in implementing, however the real
development effort is going into the NMS TFmail and we would probably
implement it there and then back-port the code authentication code into
FormMail.

As to the blat stuff - we have deliberately made the decision not to
make any effort to support blat as we don't think it is any better than
supporting SMTP directly within the FormMail itself - after all with the
exception of the authentication there is nothing that it does that we
cannot do at the moment, plus we are in the position to have finer
control over the outgoing mail envelope so we can add tracking headers
and so forth, something that some spam filter software uses to determine
that the mail has come from the NMS FormMail.

If you are thinking of amending FormMail nonetheless you will find it a
lot easier if you work on the modules version or even better the code
from the CVS as the inlining code we use to create the compat version
changes quite a lot of stuff.

/J\