[Mailman-Developers] TLS/SMTP AUTH in MM3? [was: Mailman without localhost ?]

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Redirected from -users.  I have nothing to add to what Mark wrote there.

Mark Sapiro writes:

 > These are for outgoing mail from Mailman only. They have nothing to do
 > with delivery of mail TO mailman. You can tell Mailman to connect to any
 > SMTP server and port by setting SMTPHOST to the fully qualified name of
 > the server and/or SMTPPORT to the port.
 > 
 > If ... you can use an alternate port such as 465 or 587 that may
 > require TLS and/or authentication, you can set SMTPPORT to that
 > value, but you (or the host admin) will have to patch Mailman's
 > SMTPDirect.py module to provide the authentication. You can find a
 > patch for this at <https://bugs.launchpad.net/mailman/+bug/558281>.

Is this in Mailman 3?  If not, is it appropriate?  I doubt it's a GSoC
project in itself, but might be a good prove-yourself task for an
advanced applicant.

Steve