[[!tag wishlist plugins/passwordauth]]
For sending out password reminder emails, the [[plugins/passwordauth]] plugin currently uses
the 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:
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]]
One that is in Debian is [[!cpan Email::Send]], which can do SMTP and
sendmail and some other methods and falls back through methods until one
succeeds. I haven't tried to use it but it looks like a feasable
candidate.
I don't much like the idea of supporting a lot of different email sending
modules. --[[Joey]]
OK, so I'll have a look at replacing all email handling with Email::Send.
[[!tag patch]]
http://www.thomas.schwinge.homeip.net/tmp/ikiwiki-sendmail.patch
Remaining TODOs:
- Resolve TODOs as denoted inside the patch.
- Is it worthwhile to use and depend on [[!cpan Return::Value]]
just for this bit of functionality?
- Debian news file.
- ikiwiki news file.
--[[tschwinge]]
BTW, I think you recently sent a patch improving mail logging, but I've
lost it. --[[Joey]]
Resent. --[[tschwinge]]
Debian now has Mail::Sender, Mail::SendEasy, and Email::Sender
(which, according to its dpkg description, "replaces the old and sometimes
problematic Email::Send library, which did a decent job at handling very
simple email sending tasks, but was not suitable for serious use, for a
variety of reasons"). Are any of those any better? It's unfortunate that
there doesn't seem to be a clear "best practice"... --[[smcv]]
