SMTP option for contact form

[donovanh]

Hi,

Emails sent using php's mail function from my server seem to end up by Google's spam filter. I use Google Apps so it would be very helpful to be able to use the smtp option for sending mail via gmail. This should avoid spam issues.

Cheers,

Donovan

[Mark Nielsen]

it would be very helpful to be able to use the smtp option for sending mail via gmail.

I also need Get Simple to support SMTP for sending email. On my server I've got phpmail disabled for security reasons, but any of the sites I host can use SMTP on localhost for sending email.

It would be interesting to get an idea of how easily Get Simple could support SMTP globally - i.e. for the password reminders as well as any email-sending plugins?

I need this functionality fairly quickly, so I can have a go at contributing a module or a patch to GS core...

[cumbe]

Hi.
I never thought on that option...
Try to adapt it to my plugin.

Regards.

[Mark Nielsen]

OK, cumbe. So, just to clarify, if I wanted to help make Get Simple capable of sending mail via SMTP (as well as just phpmail), I'd need to support:

• Get Simple core
  
• p01-contact plugin (p01)
  
• Contact Form plugin (cumbe)
  

Anything else that sends mail?

I haven't looked at the architecture of Get Simple much yet (still new to it), but do all these systems do their own mail-sending? Or does Get Simple have a mail sending API that plugins can access? The second approach would seem more sensible, wouldn't it?

[cumbe]

I have adapted class phpmailer to my plugin, Contact Form plugin: http://get-simple.info/extend/plugin/contact-form/264/.

Regards.

[Mark Nielsen]

Nice one, cumbe