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diff --git a/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn b/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0ae413413 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/passwordauth:_sendmail_interface.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +[[tag wishlist]] + +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]] |