[support] Mail relay

[Jason Flatt]

You mean something like this: http://drupal.org/project/smtp?

On Wednesday 26 March 2008 7:52:36 pm Larry Garfield wrote:
> Drupal allows you to substitute in your own mail backend.  You can write
> your own backend that sends direct SMTP requests to your company mail
> server.
>
> Note: I have never attempted to do so myself, so I have no idea how much
> work it is. :-)  I know the devel module does offer that functionality, so
> I suggest looking at the devel module and at the drupal_mail() function to
> see how it works.  I'm afraid I can't offer more detailed advice than that.
>
> On Wednesday 26 March 2008, Tony Yarusso wrote:
> > The guy who maintains our network with me is concerned about having open
> > mail ports in the firewall for web (http) servers.  Therefore, we would
> > rather have one dedicated mail server machine that would handle
> > everything, rather than letting things like Drupal mail out via PHP.  How
> > would I go about setting up Drupal to delegate / relay this task through
> > another server?


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