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SMTP Configuration from inside Admin Interface

Status
Pending
Subject
SMTP Configuration from inside Admin Interface
Version
2.x
3.x
4.x
Category
  • Usability
  • Feature request
Feature
Administration
Webmail
Watch (email notifications of changes)
Installer (profiles, upgrades and server-related issues)
Admin Interface (UI)
Infrastructure
Alert
Resolution status
Fix on the Way
Submitted by
morrighu
Lastmod by
Marc Laporte
Rating
(0)
Description

A lot of people who install this aren't doing it via Fantastico and trying to change email settings to suit your hosting provider is a pain. Editing the php.ini isn't always wise either because what works for one app will break another. I know that you can copy the php.ini to the directory, but that's something of a security risk. There's a reason that the default php.ini is stored outside the web root directory.

I know that I see a lot of users posting on the TikiWiki forums with questions about configuring SMTP.

Solution

Configuring the SMTP server is something that should probably be done during the install process and should be maintainable in case the mail host's name changes. So many ISP's now require authentication to send, even from the hosts on their own network, it would be advisable, simply for compatibility, to allow users to configure this from inside the admin interface. Inbound & Outbound Host name, port, SSL, user, pass, etc. I know that PHP has several mailer classes that handle this.

Thank you for bringing this up. I agree. This was added to SVN trunk for inclusion in Tiki 4.0 using Zend Framework
http://tikiwiki.svn.sourceforge.net/tikiwiki/?rev=17918&view=revQuestion

Best regards,

M 😉

Importance
8
Priority
40
Demonstrate Bug on Tiki 19+
Demonstrate Bug (older Tiki versions)
Ticket ID
1711
Created
Sunday 20 April, 2008 18:50:02 UTC
by Unknown
LastModif
Saturday 11 April, 2009 14:12:28 UTC


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