[consulting] SMTP/Mime Mail modules

[Mark Hope]

Thanks for the advice.

We're not actually using the Mail Module, rather Mime Mail and SMTP.
I'm not doing the coding on this, but I'll pass the info on.

Mark

On 20 Nov 2007, at 20:26, David Norman wrote:

> Just FYI, I took over the Mail module last week and I'm switching  
> it to
> use Mime Mail instead of the activeMailLib.php include file it uses  
> now.
> I'm upgrading Mail 4.7 to 6.0 and I'm making some changes to Mime Mail
> in the process.
>
> Though I'm not the maintainer of Mime Mail, I'd like to hope the  
> changes
> will go through in a patch, in particular some changes that stepped on
> the Mail module namespace.
>
> Status update aside, it looks like Mime Mail is written so what you're
> talking doing about shouldn't be a huge deal with a little bit of  
> script
> creation.
>
> If you look at mimemail() in mimemail.module, 6/7 of of the code is to
> pull the engine you want to use from a configuration variable and call
> it to do the mailing, creating a hook_mailengine().
>
> function clientsmtp_mailengine($op, $message) {
>   [...]
> }
>
> should do the trick. Pull the info from $message, pass it to
> smtp.module. That is, of course, all theory. I say theory because the
> variable_get to mimemail_engine doesn't appear to actually get setup
> anywhere, which means Mime Mail probably needs an advanced config
> fieldset in its admin/settings/mimemail page that just hasn't been  
> added
>  (yet).
>
> Mark Hope wrote:
>> We're currently using Simplenews, along with the Mime Mail module for
>> a number of client HTML newsletters. We're running into the usual
>> spam filtering problems and would like to use SMTP, directly through
>> the clients mailserver.
>>
>> MimeMail and SMTP modules don't look to be compatible.
>>
>> Can anybody offer any advice on this? Has anybody looked at making
>> the two compatible?
>> Issue: http://drupal.org/node/66711
>>
>> I suppose the other option is to use SPF and hope that works?
>>
>> Regards
>> Mark