[Koha-devel] Test Email Page

[Chris Nighswonger]

2010/4/15 nitesh rijal <rijal.it at gmail.com>:
> that would be an awesome Idea....its definitely needed.....I have also faced
> a lot of such problems.....
> I think we need to write in step by step process about what to do first and

I have submitted work which includes a step-by-step for setting up to
use gmail's smtp services:

http://lists.koha.org/pipermail/koha-patches/2010-February/005572.html

However, this does not address the setup of other mail services.
How-to's for others would be most welcome, no doubt.

> then what to successfully send overdue notifications and other email as
> well....
> that would be a great thing for all if implemented.

For documentation on how to setup notices in the staff client, see:

http://koha-community.org/documentation/3-2-manual/?ch=x5083

as well as the section following that one.

For documentation on how to setup the cron jobs see the
misc/cronjobs/crontab.example file.

>>
>> How about an Email Test page in the Admin area? I'm willing to write such
>> a page.
>>
>> Before doing that, I'd like any ideas developers have about such a thing.
>> And I'd like some details on how email works in Koha "from the horses'
>> mouth".

I believe that there has been an effort over the development of Koha
to separate the Koha administrative functions from the system
administrative functions. Since mail setup falls squarely in the
system administrative side of things, it might be better to write a
test script which could be run from the cli.

Kind Regards,
Chris