Re: New to list + SMTP authentication when sending email

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

> I think to send out the most professional looking invoices and such Ledgersmb 
> should act as a email client, and have the option send mail to a smtp host on 
> port 587.  That way each business can send from there own email server.

And when the businesses mailserver is gmail (yes I am serious.). I think
there is some merit to the idea but from a technical perspective, not an
RFC perspective.

> 
> The patch we are talking about is really small, I tried this in Mailer.pm:
> 
>    if ( ${LedgerSMB::Sysconfig::smtphost} ) {
>         if ( ${LedgerSMB::Sysconfig::smtpauthmethod} ){
>             $smtp = Net::SMTP::TLS->new( ${LedgerSMB::Sysconfig::smtphost},
>                 ${LedgerSMB::Sysconfig::smtpport},
>                 ${LedgerSMB::Sysconfig::smtpuser},
>                 ${LedgerSMB::Sysconfig::smtppass});
>             $smtp->mail($self->{from});
>             $smtp->to($self->{to});
>             $smtp->cc($self->{cc});
>             $smtp->bcc($self->{bcc});
> 
>             $smtp->data();
>             $smtp->datasend( $msg->as_string() );
>             $smtp->dataend();
>             $smtp->quit;
> 
>             return $!;
> /end code

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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