[Owncloud] smtp settings

[Florian Hülsmann]

Hi Simon,

 > 2) I was never actually presented with a screen to set it up the first
 > time so it doesn't appear in config.php (where it should)

I think the reason for this is that the ownCloud developers want to make 
the installation process as simple and easy as possible, in the very 
most cases you only need to enter admin login credentials.

An option would be to provide some of these settings on the admin 
settings page...

Florian

Am 26.06.2012 20:46, schrieb Simon Brereton:
> On 26 June 2012 13:31, vincent fare <vincent.fare at free.fr> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Let's have a look to the attached config sample.
>>
>> regards,
>> Vincent.
>
>
> Thanks.  That's sort of my point.
>
> This is in config.sample.php - which means..
>
> 1) it gets overwritten every time I upgrade
> 2) I was never actually presented with a screen to set it up the first
> time so it doesn't appear in config.php (where it should)
>
> I imagine the settings Florian described in his response will work for
> some servers, perhaps even the majority, but a) Owncloud shouldn't
> assume that the machine has a sendmail binary (so using the loopback
> address/127.0.0.1 is out and b) whilst the even where this is the case
> this may not be desirable.  A very common spam attack method is to
> exploit php's mail abilities and so secure sites will have
> authentication even on connections from localhost (at least that's
> what I have).
>
> But I've tried to suggest improvements to the install/set-up process before...
>
> Simon
>
>
>> On 26/06/2012 19:26, Simon Brereton wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I noticed that owncloud will attempt to mail you a mail you password
>>> recovery, but I see nothing in the config.php relating to smtp
>>> settings.  Where are these stored and how are they set up?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Simon
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