I just saw how the welcome app is. The fact is (at least I think, there are a bit of turnarounds in the core code)...
mail = Mail() is good if you later do mail.send() but Auth **needs** a mailer to send messages. Auth(db) in reality "stands" for Auth( db=None, mailer=True, hmac_key=...... ) the mailer parameter is treated as follows mailer=(mailer == True) and Mail() or mailer So............by default if you don't pass a mailer to Auth(), the default value (True) creates a Mail() object for you. Current welcome is "smart" in exploiting such shortcuts auth = Auth(db) ..... mail = auth.settings.mailer mail.settings.server = 'logging' or 'smtp.gmail.com:587' mail.settings.sender = 'y...@gmail.com' mail.settings.login = 'username:password' This "assigns" to the mail variable the Mail() created by Auth (so that Auth can use it), and configures it accordingly The "other" method would be to mail=Mail() mail.settings.server='smtp.gmail.com:587' mail.settings.sender='y...@somewhere.com' mail.settings.login='username:password' auth=Auth(db) auth.settings.mailer=mail # auth.settings....=... auth.define_tables() In this way, Mail() created by Auth() is "overwritten" by your Mail() with the settings. Same thing goes with mail=Mail() mail.settings.server='smtp.gmail.com:587' mail.settings.sender='y...@somewhere.com' mail.settings.login='username:password' auth=Auth(db, mailer=mail) but in this case, Auth doesn't create it, so it's just an assignment and not an override ^__^ On Monday, March 24, 2014 10:54:43 PM UTC+1, Jim S wrote: > > No, I hadn't tried that. I just did and it fixed it. Is that the > recommended way to setup your mail server now? I must have done it wrong a > long time ago and just kept replicating it. It works on some of my > deployed apps, but not all of them. > > -Jim > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.