"Mailhost" and SMTP Authentication

[RobR]

I'd like to send a confirmation email once a record is created by a webuser. I was able to do so by redirecting the brower to an intermediate "submitting" page that included the following code:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" content = " 3; URL=FMPro?-db=ABCD.fp5&-format=thanks.html&-mailto=[FMP-Field: Lister Email]&[email protected]&[email protected]&-mailsub=Thanks for your submission&-mailhost=mail.abcd.com&-mailformat=mail.txt&-recid=[FMP-Currentrecid]&-Find">

Then I moved the server in-house, and my new ISP requires SMTP authentication for all outgoing mail. Anyone know if I can drop authentication code in here?

[Steve T.]

Howdy.. I don't know how to authenticate to your ISP's smtp mail server, but you could probably turn your FMP server into an SMTP mail server and just bypass your ISP altogether. Unless I am misremembering, OS X 10.3 comes with PostFix preinstalled (alternative to the Sendmail unix app) so you may want to look into that instead. I don't remember having to do anything special to activiate it, but I use my computer at work for development so I've enabled Apache web sharing, installed PHP and MySQL, and while testing PHP e-mail functions, I think I successfully was sending messages from my computer without any other mail server being involved... I cannot be certain because I work on so many systems and servers, I get confused sometimes, but I think you're all set with what you've already got (Panther out of the box).

--ST

[RobR]

Steve, thanks. Yes, I'm running Postfix on my server and the OSX front end allows for messages to be relayed thru the ISP to avoid (I guess) rejection from recipient mail servers. I had relay enabled, but I disabled it and now essentially use my server as a direct SMTP server. That is the fix.

The relay bit is the issue. Since FMP is sending via the ISP, and the ISP requires authentication with a log/pass to allow you to use it. "Mailhost" I do not think allows for the insertion of any kind of log/pass within the CDML, so you are out of luck if you want to use "mailhost" with an SMTP server requiring authentication IMO.

I believe FMP can be jiggered to send the mail, but I haven't checked that out yet. Somewhere on my todo list.

Cheers.