Forum OpenACS Development: acs-mail-lite vs ns_sendmail

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1: acs-mail-lite vs ns_sendmail
Posted by Michael Totschnig on 10/23/07 10:40 AM
I have a server without a mailer listening at port 25, but a sendmail binary which correctly relais to my mail host. the sendmailbin parameter of acs-mail-lite is correctly configured, so I thought, that I should not have any problems sending mails. But when I add a new user, I get the error,
can't connect to "localhost:25"; connection refused

because in file acs-admin/www/users/user-add-3.tcl it is calling ns_sendmail.

What is the reason of not using the acs-mail-lite API here?

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2: Re: acs-mail-lite vs ns_sendmail (response to 1)
Posted by Andrew Piskorski on 10/24/07 04:38 PM
Probably just history. That code dates from c. 2001 or even earlier, before acs-mail-lite existed.

However, there are lots of calls to ns_sendmail throughout the toolkit, as grep will show: 

find . -name "*.tcl" -print | xargs grep ns_sendmail

So, you probably need to configure a basic SMTP server on the box, and/or drop in a replacement ns_sendmail proc which does what you want.

Why doesn't your box have a local SMTP server listening on localhost anyway? AFAIK it should have one.

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3: Re: acs-mail-lite vs ns_sendmail (response to 2)
Posted by Michael Totschnig on 10/25/07 04:16 PM
So for consistency, all this calls to ns_sendmail could and should be replaced by calls to acs_mail_lite? That's what I did in my install for the problem at hand.
If there is interest in cleaning this up in the OpenACS CVS, I can post a patch.
This is a server hosted by another company that's why I do not control how email is configured there.