[kronolith] reminders and STMP/AUTH

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de>:

> Hi Jan,
>
> Am 25.02.2008 um 01:42 schrieb Jan Schneider:
>> Zitat von Martin Waschbüsch <martin at waschbuesch.de>:
>>>
>>> Also I found a 'not-a-bug' ticket on horde.org, that I wrote a
>>> comment
>>> to. But, this being marked as not a bug, I wanted to ask whether
>>> anyone on the list has the same problem and has come up with a
>>> solution? Or is this being changed in a future release perhaps?
>>
>> No. How should we know the users' passwords?
>>
>> Jan.
>
>
> Hm, perhaps I misinterpret or misunderstand something?
> What I do now is set the SMTP/AUTH setting to CRAM-MD5 and leave
> username and password open.
> Because that works as far as headers and sending mail is concerned, I
> sort of assumed it meant that horde was using the same username/
> password as provided on login.

Correct.

> But of course you are right, a local script on the server cannot have
> a list of usernames/passwords in order to do SMTP/AUTH.

Exactly.

> So, the question is rather why the reminder script has to use the same
> method for sending mail as each individual user. Reminders could just
> come from one specified sender having his own username/password. We
> specify the address to use for reminders in horde anyway, so why not
> add the possibility to set the corresponding username/password?

Patch?

Jan.

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