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[[!tag wishlist plugins/passwordauth]]
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For sending out password reminder emails, the [[plugins/passwordauth]] plugin currently uses
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the *[Mail::Sendmail](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mail::Sendmail)* module.
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This module, however, has the limitation that it can only talk *SMPT*,
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but can't use the standard Unix *sendmail* (command-line) interface.
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I don't want to have an MTA with a SMTPd running on my web server system.
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Would it be possible to switch to using one of the existing Perl modules that support
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the *sendmail* interface?
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From doing a quick search, these might be some candidates:
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* <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mail::Transport::Sendmail>
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* <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Email::Send::Sendmail>
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* <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Mail::SendVarious>
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* <http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?EasyMail>
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None of them are packaged for Debian so far, but that should be doable easily, as far as I know.
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ikiwiki might perhaps even try to use all of them in turn until it finds a working one.
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I'd offer to work on a patch for the [[plugins/passwordauth]] plugin and other places
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in the ikiwiki source code, where emailing is done.
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--[[tschwinge]]
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> One that is in Debian is [[!cpan Email::Send]], which can do SMTP and
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> sendmail and some other methods and falls back through methods until one
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> succeeds. I haven't tried to use it but it looks like a feasable
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> candidate.
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> I don't much like the idea of supporting a lot of different email sending
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> modules. --[[Joey]]
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OK, so I'll have a look at replacing all email handling with *Email::Send*.
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[[!tag patch]]
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*<http://nic-nac-project.de/~schwinge/ikiwiki/0001-Use-Email-Send-instead-of-Mail-Sendmail.patch>*
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Remaining TODOs:
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* Resolve TODOs as denoted inside the patch.
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* Update for the last years of ikiwiki development, such as adapting the
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[[plugins/notifyemail]] plugin.
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* Is this
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[[UTF-8-safe|bugs/password_reset_fails_with___34__Wide_character_in_subroutine_entry__34__]]?
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* Is it worthwhile to use and depend on [[!cpan Return::Value]]
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just for this bit of functionality?
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* Debian news file.
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* ikiwiki news file.
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--[[tschwinge]]
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> BTW, I think you recently sent a patch improving mail logging, but I've
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> lost it. --[[Joey]]
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Resent. --[[tschwinge]]
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> Debian now has Mail::Sender, Mail::SendEasy, and Email::Sender
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> (which, according to its dpkg description, "replaces the old and sometimes
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> problematic Email::Send library, which did a decent job at handling very
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> simple email sending tasks, but was not suitable for serious use, for a
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> variety of reasons"). Are any of those any better? It's unfortunate that
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> there doesn't seem to be a clear "best practice"... --[[smcv]]
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