Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Sending Emails via SMTP port 587

I have updated the source code for nssmtpd in the GitHub repository to support PLAIN authentication. See for the details of the change in [1] and the updated README file to show the configuration [2].

Below is also a small .tcl page for NaviServer to send a mail without the OpenACS (make sure to avoid acs-mail-lite configuration errors).

In order to install the new version of nssmtpd, follow the following steps (assuming you are using the default paths in install-ns.sh).

cd /usr/local/src
rm -rf nssmtpd
git clone https://github.com/naviserver-project/nssmtpd.git 
cd nssmtpd
make && sudo make install

Let me know if you need further instructions.

All the best
-g

[1] https://github.com/naviserver-project/nssmtpd/commit/c4539044078110b0198d319d767a06d59981fc07
[2] https://github.com/naviserver-project/nssmtpd

set originator neumann@wu.ac.at
set to_addr neumann@wu.ac.at

set message "From: $originator
To: $to_addr
Date: [ns_httptime [clock seconds]]
Subject: Testmail2
 
Testmail
"

#
# Turn on debugging form nssmptd
#
ns_logctl severity Debug(smtpd) on

try {
    ns_smtpd send $originator $to_addr message localhost 2525
} on error {result} {
    ns_log error $result
} on ok {result} {
    ns_log notice "sent OK, result <$result>"    
}

ns_return 200 text/plain "\
Sending mail ....

===================================================
$message
===================================================

returns: 
    $result
"