[horde] imp and mailer

[Uttiya Chowdhury]

Hi Jan,
For my use application, I have horde installed in a local server, but our mail is hosted externally. I would like horde to use local server SMTP or sendmail to send out it's own messages. But the horde users need to get mail through external server.

In any case, what I meant by "that section in IMP" is the backends.php in imp/config folder. My backends.php looks like:

==
$servers['imap'] = array(
    // ENABLED by default
    'disabled' => false,
    'name' => 'IMAP Server',
    'hostspec' => 'imap.asia.secureserver.net',
    'hordeauth' => true,
    'protocol' => 'imap',
    'port' => 143,
    'secure' => false,
    'smtp' => array(
        'auth' => true,
        'localhost' => 'localhost',
        'host' => 'smtpout.asia.secureserver.net',
        'password' => null,
        'port' => 80,
        'username' => null
         ),
    'maildomain' => 'ces.com',
    'cache' => true
);
==
So, if backends.php has the provision of specifying an SMTP server, I hoped that this section would override horde's mailer configuration for IMP's purposes. If not, then IMP backends.php should not accept an SMTP section.

Just my thoughts on how I expected it to be. 

Thanks.

UC



> > Hi all,
> > imp has a backends.php, but how mail is sent from imp
> is determined by the mailer setting in horde's setup. I
> found it counter-intuitive. I thought:
> > * imp should use it's own configuration (as set in
> backends.php) to send mail
> 
> Why should IMP use a different configuration than Horde by
> default? That doesn't make any sense.
> 
> > * if horde needs to send mail, it will use the values
> set in the mailer tab
> > 
> > If the mailer tab settings determine how imp will send
> mail, why do we have that section in imp anyway?
> 
> Which section?