Re: [Phpgedview-talk] Sending Mail

[Ted S. <su...@ai...>]

On Tuesday 06 June 2006 06:57, waldo kitty wrote:
> Willard Farqwark wrote:
> > When a user tries to regester, the e-mail to confirm does not get sent.
> > Where do I start looking?
>
> i've seen your other message about locating an error message that you
> hadn't seen... i can't help you with that but i did want to say that i
> wrote, sometime back, about adding SMTP capabilities to phpGEDView...
>
> what i had done was to modify phpGEDView to use the open source SMTP
> "library" that phpBB uses... i wrote, in here, that it would be a good idea
> and that there shouldn't be any problems since both programs are open
> source... my mods weren't all that extensive and i only needed to figure
> out how the configuration stuffs in phpGEDView were done so that i could
> add the needed parameters for the option to use SMTP instead of sendmail or
> similar... replies that i received were to the effect that there was
> something already planned in that area and that my work was basically for
> naught... unfortunately i do not have those mods any more due to a
> reinstall or an upgrade... i don't remember which :(
>
> anyway, i'd like to, once again, propose that the phpBB SMTP code be used
> so as to offer another option of sending mails from phpGEDView...

The server that phpGEDView is on is also a very active mail and spam server.
I just need to get apache/php to write to the  /var/spool/clientmqueue/
dir owned by smmpd. This is not a new problem or only a problem
for phpGEDView.  But phpGEDView is not right working because of it.

ted