Question

The SMTP server I need to connect to requires authentication, yet I'm not seeing where or how to include my username and password for this server in my twiki installation. I did stumble across:

UsingSmtpMailServerAuthentication

but the problem is that the poster says that the solution doesn't work, while I'm not sure how the newer Perl version (which I am using) solves this problem. Could someone who knows something about PERL and TWiki please advise.

Thanks

Environment

-- CraigAumann - 04 May 2006

Answer

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Some weeks ago I've advised the same hack in HtpasswdRegistration (at the end of a long story) and it worked with plain Net::SMTP - but I was careless enough not to call ok. Anyway, the code in UsingSmtpMailServerAuthentication is broken because it returns unconditionally. Try to replace:

     $smtp -> auth('mrjcleaver', 'mypassword');                              
     my $status = ($smtp->ok() ? "" : "ERROR: Can't authenticate using Net::SMTP ". $smtp->message);                                                             
-    return $status;
+    return $status if $status;

     my $status = "";   

-- HaraldJoerg - 04 May 2006

Thanks! I made these changes. Problem now is, I have no idea how to test whether it is working as I know nothing about PERL. Just running the notification script doesn't seem to work (meaning I didn't get an email) and /data/logxxx and /data/warnxxx both say nothing.

-- CraigAumann - 05 May 2006

What type of mails are you trying to create?

• For mails about user registration you'd have to register a new user
• For notification about new topics you have to first register in a web's WebNotify topic, then to change a topic, and then to run mailnotify.

perl -I ../bin mailnotify

Check your local TWiki/MailerContrib about the parameters of the mailnotify script.

-- HaraldJoerg - 05 May 2006

Thanks! Originally, such notifications were sent by sendmail. But sendmail wasn't set-up right... So I hoped that the above would provide an easier work around. I've switched to Postfix which may have resolved the problem.

Thanks for your thoughts.

-- CraigAumann - 06 May 2006