| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 4 / 5 |
| Reliability | 3.5 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 3.5 / 5 |
| Documentation | 3 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 4 |
Drupal 7 We have a new functional release for D7. Lot's of clean-ups on code have been made, and PHPMailer is now being shipped with it, so it works out-of-the-box. Go test this now! Important On a weekly basis we have support requests all on the same issue, so please SEARCH before creating an issue,... [More...]
| Maintainer: | José San Martin |
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| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6.x-1.0-beta5 | 2010-Aug-04 | Download | Recommended |
| 5.x-1.0 | 2008-Jun-24 | Download | Recommended |
| 7.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Nov-12 | Download | Development |
| 6.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Sep-17 | Download | Development |
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2011-Feb-25 | Download | Development |
| 7.x-1.0-beta1 | 2011-Sep-08 | Download | Other |
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I found this module today after launching our site yesterday. We're using Rackspace Cloud sites and for some reason the default phpmail function was at first very slow then stopped all together. I setup an e-mail account for this and installed the module all in about 10-15 minutes.
My ONLY complaint is that it was not noted in the README or INSTALL file that you had to use 2.21 (looked like a patch for 2.3 but didn't risk it) for the phpmailer. I got an error after configuring it but it didn't take me long to realize why. Switched out the phpmailer module and it was up!! Thanks so much.
This module is very good for what it does- smtp auth support for standard text emails. The other reviewer here mentioned a 'white screen of death' or WSOD which is common when something is very messed up, but there's a drupal org page on steps to take to fix it, starting with giving drupal more memory.
At any rate, the gotchas with this module is unforeseen interactions with the mime module and drupal 6x. The community has addressed this problem with messaging api, a means to integrate smtp mail with mime as well as with user-user onsite messaging and sms, etc. So like Rules is to actions/triggers, the hope is to subsume this problem with a standardized means of messaging so do some research on that. Sorry to make this review more of a review of other modules, but I suppose I was trying to help guide any readers here with problems I ran into. hope this helps!
The installation and configuration is easy enough, however, when you send a test mail or use any feature that sends a mail you get a white page for the response, and the mail is not sent.
This module is unbelievably useful. After stressing for days about the fact that a lot of email from our drupal powered site isn't reaching users because of hotmails useless spam filter. After several SPF configurations and even an email to Hotmails senderid people I came upon this module. Now all of my sites email gets sent via google apps for domains. A lovely side effect of this is that any mail sent from the site ends up in my info@ sent items folder. This means I can keep track of everything sent from within google apps.
My only complaint is that setup took 5 minutes longer than it should have. I got an error message after the install and had to look in smtp.module to discover that phpmailer needs to be installed in a folder called phpmailer in the root directory of the module. No biggy and I might contribute a patch to the install instructions tonight to make it easier for drupal noobs.
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