[GMG-Devel] E-mail verification SMTP settings

[Damien Radtke]

First, I'd like to say thanks for starting the mediagoblin project. It's a sign that the internet is moving in the right direction. =)

Anyway, I'm working on setting up a personal server for some of my friends and me to use, and I've been experimenting with mediagoblin on it. For the most part everything works fine, with the exception of e-mail notifications when a new account is created.

For testing purposes, I'm configuring mediagoblin to use gmail as the SMTP server (I couldn't get it to work locally, need to learn more about setting up SMTP for that), and I ran into an error with authentication.

For reference, here are my smtp settings in mediagoblin_local.ini:

email_debug_mode = false
email_smtp_host = smtp.gmail.com
email_smtp_port = 587
email_smtp_user = <username>
email_smtp_pass = <password>

And here is the change needed for this to work:

# mediagoblin/tools/mail.py line 104 (just before calling login)
mhost.ehlo()
mhost.starttls()

Am I missing a configuration option for the SMTP security, or is this a scenario that hasn't been considered yet?

Thanks!
~Damien