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9/15/2009 12:55 PM
 

Alright, I have been having some issues for quite some time now.  Hopefully there is something I just don't understand, but I think what I may be running into would be a new feature request going forward.

The issue is this.  I use a hosting provider that allows me to point many different domains at my dotnetnuke install.  I have many different clients and so I have setup a portal for each domain.  So, lets say I have 5 domains running 5 different sites for 5 different clients on a single install of DNN.  The problem is in setting up the SMTP settings which are at the host level!  So, I typically choose one of the 5 domains as the SMTP server, and setup an account from which to send mail.  I then choose basic authentication, and proide the apporpriate username and password.

The issue is, that now if I have a module that sends emails, it uses the same account for all 5 domains.  So, 4 of my customers get all their webform emails sent from another domain!

Wouldn't it make more sense to have the SMTP settings setup per portal instead of per host?

I hope I have made this point clearly, if not, please ask and I will be happy to clarify.

 
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9/15/2009 1:26 PM
 

Jay,

This issue has come up a number of times in the forums.  It is also listed in the Suggested Enhancements in the roadmap. (http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Development/ReleaseManagement/Roadmap/tabid/616/Default.aspx)  There has even been code posted to Gemini that adds this functionality (http://support.dotnetnuke.com/issue/ViewIssue.aspx?id=9510&PROJID=2).  Having said all that, the usual answer seen is that "there are 3rd party modules" that allow this".   It would be nice to have this functionality buit in. :)

 
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9/16/2009 12:58 PM
 

Ahh yes, I see it on the roadmap.  Thanks for posting that link.  I had not happened across the roadmap page before.  Well, hopefully it will be added at the portal level soon.  It really does not seem to be a very dificult task to move the settings from HostSettings to PortalSettings.  Or for that matter, just duplicate the setting at the portal level, and have the settings collection load the hostSettings info if the portal settings have been left null.

Anyway, it would be great if we could get around 100 people to go to the roadmap page and click the star next to "Portal SMTP" in order to increase it's importance.  So, if you want that feature please click the link.

 
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