SMTP Authentication request for future GBook release

[JMM-BDA]

Script URL: https://www.genealogywings.com/gbook/gbook.php
Version of script: 1.9.0
Hosting company: Myself locally (Abyss Web Server)
URL of phpinfo.php: https://www.genealogywings.com/gbook/phpinfo.php
URL of session_test.php: https://www.genealogywings.com/gbook/session_test.php
What terms did you try when SEARCHING for a solution: SMTP, SMTP authorization, mail()

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Hello, Klemen,

Thank you again for a great script. It used to work perfectly, before I retired & was still employed, and could afford to host my hobby websites externally, on professionally-hosted sites. However, now that I am retired & no longer able to afford hosting my sites externally, I have had to bring them all into my home, using my own web server software. Unfortunately, I have no local mail sever which can send out notification emails using PHP's mail() command, so I am no longer receiving email notifications when someone signs my guestbooks.

I realize that your GBook 1.9.0 (and previous versions) do not use SMTP Authentication, but perhaps in a future release you will consider adding SMTP Authentication capability, even if that capability requires a paid license of Gbook (which I purchased 16 years ago but do not use, as I wish to display the link back to you in all my footers ).

Thank you in advance for considering SMTP Authentication capability for a future release.

Regards,
John

[Klemen]

Hello John,

glad to hear that you still use GBook after all this time.

I may add SMTP Authentication to GBook at some point in the future, but to be honest, I spend much more time working on the Hesk script these days. It is much more popular and used by many many more people that GBook, so my attention goes mostly there.

[JMM-BDA]

Understood completely.

To solve this notification issue, I just wrote an MS-DOS batch file to check for submissions in the /apptmp folders & scheduled it to run at midnight every night, and this method works perfectly for my needs .

Thanks anyway, and good luck with your popular Hesk.

Regards,
john

[Klemen]

That's a nifty solution, glad that it works well for you!