[support] Mail relay

[Pete Prodoehl]

Jason Flatt wrote:
> You mean something like this: http://drupal.org/project/smtp ?

I recommend the SMTP module, I use it on many sites.


Pete


> 
> 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?