On 17 Jul 2010, at 22:03, Ryan MacFarlane wrote: >> ... >> These comments are not intended as a criticism - I would love to be >> educated if there's stuff that can't be done this way. But it seems >> like SMTP authentication, and adding complexities to that, is adding >> unnecessary features to LedgerSMB. If LedgerSMB can stick to its core >> competencies then it can do those better! >> ... > > It has been a while since I have looked into email sending from > LedgerSMB (and LedgerSMB itself) so the following may not be 100% > correct (and may have been updated since). At the time, the built in > email functionality of LedgerSMB was not sufficient for the > environment > the patch was originally written for. I believe this functionality was > carried over from SQL-Ledger. The mail provider would simply reject > the > method of mail transportation used by LedgerSMB. In order to use the > email functionality of LedgerSMB, it was decided to implement the SMTP > authentication needed by the mail host. The result of this > implementation was the desired use of the built in email > functionality - > it worked as desired for that installation and environment. > > Is there a common best practice in LedgerSMB for setting up email > functionality?
I would say that best practice is to use sendmail / sendmail-command- line-compatibility, in the way already followed. ssmtp can authenticate to a single upstream host. I think you shouldn't need more than, irrespective of the number of companies for whom you're hosting LedgerSMB. If you DO need that, then I'm pretty sure that Postfix can route to different upstream servers depending upon the from: domain. Load shouldn't be a problem that you need to run Postfix on a different box, but if you do then it can be secured in various ways (still compatible with the above). I don't think you've shown any need for this feature. "not sufficient for the environment the patch was originally written for" - the guy could just be reinventing the horse. Explain WHY it was insufficient, and I'll try to answer. Stroller. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
