#32: New mail out implementation

Contents
  1. Motivation
  2. Proposal
  3. Implementation
by Alexander Limi — last modified Jun 11, 2006 12:21 AM

Plone needs a better MailHost implementation that supports authenticated SMTP, async operation and better security.

Proposed by
Christian Heimes
Proposal type
Architecture
State
completed

Motivation

The old MailHost isn't secure and has no support for validating email addresses

Proposal

Replace MailHost by SecureMailHost

Implementation

Ship Plone 2.1 with SecureMailHost and replace the old templates and stuff in PloneTool with the new API