Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Internet Messaging with Email

[waldo k. <wki...@al...>]

den...@ur... wrote:
> I have Preferred Contact Method set to "Internet Messaging with Email". 
> It works great if someone wants to contact me, but I am not getting 
> emails when someone tries to sign up for a new account.

i ran into this problem, too... i ended up installing my own SMTP server but due to other circumstances, have had to 
readjust and not use it for all of what it can do... instead, i'm looking at incorporating the phpBB SMTP.PHP code into 
phpGEDview... i've gotten quite a bit of the stuff needed in place but have not had time to work further on it in the 
last week or so... the incorporation is not simple as i'm having to learn how phpGEDview does its work as well as 
chasing down the flow of the SMTP code from phpBB... i've not gone as far as also using phpBB's emailer class code and 
likely won't... currently, my plans are to try to get this working for my stuff and then submit it to the phpGEDview 
group for the needed additions to the configuration code section as some stuff needs to be set in the config file(s)... 
who knows, though... i may be able to wade thru all that and get that code in place, too, before submitting it...

i don't have any problems and would actually love to see the phpGEDview folk take the phpBB SMTP code and work it into 
phpGEDview... especially since they already know how their code flows and is structured... what i've done i did in about 
30 minutes or so on a friday night after a few beverages... i've gotta get into the right state of mind to tackle this 
further...

using the phpBB SMTP code should not be a problem, either, since both are open source projects... i believe that both 
are also GPL'd... i know that phpBB is but would have to take another look at the phpGEDview stuff to verify... either 
way, i have to do something as using php's mail() function doesn't work on all setups and i believe that a choice to use 
the mail() function or direct SMTP is a great benefit to phpGEDview... the mail() function is already wrapped in 
phpGEDview with another function and my incorporation has simply been to check a variable at the end of that wrapper 
function to determine if mail() should be called or the SMTP code... there is a tad more stuff that has to be done but 
it should not be all that major... i may already have it all done and simply need to prefix the call(s) with @ so the 
errors don't show...

thoughts? ideas? support? should i go ahead and toss in what i've already done??

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