SMTP settings override via Identities

[Hobbes]

As posted on the dev list, an ugly hack to override SMTP settings from within identities. I guess it would need some cleaning up and probably some security enhancements as well. For example would it be nice to enable/disable the feature and/or being able to restrict to some SMTP servers from within the configuration.

Quote from the mail to the dev list: "Basically it adds the smtp_ settings to the identity settings, and, and this is the ugly part, passes the identity array all the way through, until the SMTP connection data is being assembled. The patch doesn't take care of non-MySQL databases. (The other DDL scripts are not being updated.)"

Opinions/ideas/suggestions are welcome, Hobbes

[Hobbes]

patch against svn1039

[till]

Thanks, I'll be working on this in the next version.

[thomasb]

Should the average user really have to think of SMTP settings? I'd like to keep the user prefs as simple as possible.

[Hobbes]

Replying to thomasb:

Should the average user really have to think of SMTP settings?

No. There are very different use-cases though - to quote myself from the dev list: "One thing I was missing though, was being able to override SMTP settings from within Identities. This is because I use 3 different POP3/SMTP accounts that I collect into a single IMAP account. For each of these accounts I have to use different SMTP settings."

This of course is not the standard hosting use-case. My IMAP instance is exclusively for myself, and as mentioned I do need to handle multiple POP3/SMTP accounts with it, much like you'd otherwise do with a rich email client.

This option should, I totally agree with you there, not be enabled by default.