[phpBT-dev] htmlMimeMail mail test

[Ulf E. <ulf...@fa...>]

Hoi,

Mail problems are among the most commonly reported problems with 
pbpBugTracker today. I've written a sort of test page to simplify 
finding out what switches and options to use in htmlMimeMail to get the 
mails out on your system. (I've not had any problems with the mail 
functions myself and maybe not too many of you neither, but I still 
thought that this could make things simpler for some)

To try the new page: Drop mailtest.php in the phpbt/admin/ directory and 
mailtest.html in phpbt/templates/default/admin/ directory. Log in as an 
administrator and go to mailtest.php. Fill in any options you like and 
generate the code. If you like what you see you can run it, and 
hopefully send a test mail.

Not everything testable on the page have configure options in phpBT yet, 
but I plan to make defines (or database entries) for the names in all 
capitals. Actually, some part cannot be done with htmlMimeMail either. 
You can, for instance, not send non-Mime mail with htmlMimeMail ;-)

Let me know what you think about the idea. Whether it should be offered 
by the installer or as an administration page. Should it be extended to 
also test 'mail', PHPMailer, and the Pear Mail package? It would 
probably be easy enough to make phpBugTracker use which ever you like, 
but would anyone care to change mail package if what was offered at 
first "just worked"?

/Ulf