Batch update of issues that won't be addressed due to change in functionality from version 9.0

This should be AdministratorID Email instead of "hostEmail" for a test to work and also what should be used when sending out the emails. This is why I vote for having emails you can set for your accounts, admin, noreply, support, default check and so on. Only way this might work is if you use the same email domain for your email account used with the portal the same as the host. Which if your hosting multiple sites and don't desire emails to be coming from the same "Host" account. Portals should have better SMTP settings that help control mail. Servers usually are setup to send only from within that domains scope set by the domain after the @. So for my SMTP to work I need addresses that match the domain to be used while sending. anyemail@x.com cant send from a user with authentication that is anyemail@y.com using authenticatedemail@y.com. This is simply because this would open up the SMTP server to be used to spam.

One other issue is I am not able to use mail.domain.com:465 for SSL I have to leave the ports black to default to 25 to work and only works for host setttings.

If you look at the code below it shows what the "Test SMTP" button does. It sure looks like if I am looking at this correctly, but its using hostEmail for the email account. I could not find another version of testing SMTP so if your doing a portal test, this is the function you are using which is off. Again it should have something to do with the administrator of the websites email account, or an email account you can simply set as described above.

So by looking at this code and using two different domains, users with email accounts from different domains all hosting different websites using a single instance of DNN would run into an issue. Is there any way this has been tested and shown working using SSL having portal settings setup in the recent future?

To start this test method should probably be split into two with an If statement to tell if it is a host smtp or portal smtp. Maybe I am missing it? I would like to get to know this issue more to see what I can come up with to help troubleshoot at least.

protected void TestEmail(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
try
{
var hostEmail = Entities.Host.Host.HostEmail;
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(hostEmail))
{
txtSMTPPassword.Attributes.Add("value", txtSMTPPassword.Text);

string strMessage = Mail.SendMail(*hostEmail,
hostEmail,*
"",
"",
MailPriority.Normal,
Localization.GetSystemMessage(PortalSettings, "EMAIL_SMTP_TEST_SUBJECT"),
MailFormat.Text,
Encoding.UTF8,
"",
"",
txtSMTPServer.Text,
optSMTPAuthentication.SelectedItem.Value,
txtSMTPUsername.Text,
txtSMTPPassword.Text,
chkSMTPEnableSSL.Checked);
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(strMessage))
{
UI.Skins.Skin.AddModuleMessage(this, "", String.Format(Localization.GetString("EmailErrorMessage", LocalResourceFile), strMessage), ModuleMessage.ModuleMessageType.RedError);
}
else
{
UI.Skins.Skin.AddModuleMessage(this, "", Localization.GetString("EmailSentMessage", LocalResourceFile), ModuleMessage.ModuleMessageType.GreenSuccess);
}
}
else
{
UI.Skins.Skin.AddModuleMessage(this, "", Localization.GetString("SpecifyHostEmailMessage", LocalResourceFile), ModuleMessage.ModuleMessageType.RedError);
}
}
catch (Exception exc) //Module failed to load
{
Exceptions.ProcessModuleLoadException(this, exc);
}
}

This has been a long term issue since the portal feature was brought to DNN I have not seen it work yet.

There should be an option in the SMTP settings to set what email is used oh wait it does, but then uses the portals admin email instead of the email you set.

This seems to be the problem I am wanting to look hard into it now as I am hoping to get this feature working nicely. I want to host multiple sites from one installation but this is a show stopper.

I know that my SMTP server requires authentication (username/password) that matches the domain. If your administrator of the website uses something else it will fail.

It should simply use what you put inside for the account (or have an email field you can set for when the username is not an email account) and NOT use the administrators email. Have a way to set what email account is being used for registrations, passwords, newsletters along with a default for anything else if not everything.

Greg,
if you are not in a multi-portal situation, where site specific SMTP settings are required, just use the Host configuration. This needs to be fixed in a future version though to suite multiportal scenarios.

Sebastian, thanks for your attention. Again.

Yet, in my case I don't use the SMTPEnableSSL value so for me it is "N".

Additionally, if I set the SMTPMod*e to "*p" in Portal Settings DB Table my e-mails don't go to users. Only when I switch it back to "h" again, do they get emailed.

So the question is: whether I should stick to the f****-up setting as the manual says ("p" in SMTPMode in Portal Settings Table) and be deprived of the e-mailing functionality or should I use the "*h" there and enjoy the e-mailing capabilities.

For me the answer is obvious.