[xwiki-users] Mail; Turing

[Sergiu Dumitriu]

Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi Lilianne,
> 
> On Jun 6, 2008, at 2:51 AM, Lilianne E. Blaze wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>> 1) What's the status of change from Apache Commons Net Mail to  
>> JavaMail?
>> It seems MailSenderPlugin.java is more or less ready but XWiki.java
>> still uses the old code?
>>
>> 2) Are there any plans to allow for SMTP Authentication?
> 
> We'd love to see contributions in these 2 areas. With good patches it  
> can be done real quick.
> Right now I don't know anyone from the xwiki dev team working on it. I  
> guess we're all using the new MailSender plugin and we haven't had the  
> need for SMTP authentication. I do agree it would be nice to support it.
> 
> Make sure you vote for this issue in jira. All the popular issues  
> surface up on
> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:popularissues-panel 
>   and the xwiki devs use this list to guide their work (amongst other  
> things).
> 
>> 3) Is there a way to enforce some kind of turing test on register?
> 
> Not sure what you mean. We do have automated functional tests on  
> register though. What's missing?

That's CAPTCHA, and for the answer, see 
http://www.nabble.com/forum/Search.jtp?forum=2563&local=y&query=captcha

(Short summary: yes, it is possible, but it wasn't done in the official 
release yet)
-- 
Sergiu Dumitriu
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