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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.
  • Are commit emails still working?

--[[tschwinge]]

BTW, I think you recently sent a patch improving mail logging, but I've lost it. --[[Joey]]

Resent. --[[tschwinge]]