What Stefan meant to say is that Elog does not implement sending email using encrypted SMTP over TLS.

In theory it could be implemented, but if you try to use it, you may find that most
destinations will reject you unless you have configured correct SPF records.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sender_Policy_Framework

Even if you do everything right, joints like gmail may still reject you because
their AI decides you are a spammer, or just because they do not like you, and good
luck making them change their mind.

At TRIUMF, we configure elog to use unencrypted and unauthenticated SMTP
to smtp.triumf.ca, which has special rules to accept our email (no questions asked),
and our Microsoft email instance is configured to accept and forward email from
smpt.triumf.ca. Everything is done right, but we still see Fermilab's Microsoft
rejecting TRIUMF's Microsoft email once in a while.

K.O.

Thanks,

Does email notification from a Gmail address work? It is noted that port 465 must be used for SSL use? Is this correct :

SMTP host : smtp.gmail.com

SMTP port = 465

SMTP username = monadresse@gmail.com

And, should I enter the password attached to my Gmail email and where?

Thanks in advance.

Hello,
I would like to notify by email as soon as an entry is created or modified.
I declared my SMTP which uses TLS security.
The following error message appears : Erreur d'envoi de mail via "smtp.xxxx.xxx.xxx.fr": 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

Is there a solution ?

When using the Webserver authentication in combination with "File" and "Self register = 3", it is possible to keep track of registrations and control access still. This is very useful, and upon clicking on the logbook for the first time, the user is asked to register by typing their username, full name and email address.

First issue here is that they can still edit the box with their username, which might cause confusion if somebody decides to choose a different username and is then surprised about why they cannot automatically login again. Is it possible to lock this field from being edited?

The second issue is more minor, but the user has to manually type their name and email address, even though the webserver may already be able to provide this information in the headers. Specifically, it would be useful to read the name from the X-Forwarded-Name header and email address from the X-Forwarded-Email header. 

My config file snippet is below:

Authentication = Webserver, File
allow password change = 0
Password file = webserver.passwords
Self register    = 3
 

Thanks!

TSL is not implemented in ELOG. Maybe I find time some day to do that, but if we have any volunteers in our community who could help me with that I would appreciate.

Stefan

Hello,
I would like to notify by email as soon as an entry is created or modified.
I declared my SMTP which uses TLS security.
The following error message appears : Erreur d'envoi de mail via "smtp.xxxx.xxx.xxx.fr": 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

Is there a solution ?

You would have to access the raw elgo database files (which are pure ASCII files) and write some script which goes through all files and changes the URLs. 

Stefan

Hello,
I would like to notify by email as soon as an entry is created or modified.
I declared my SMTP which uses TLS security.
The following error message appears : Erreur d'envoi de mail via "smtp.xxxx.xxx.xxx.fr": 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first

Is there a solution ?

Dear All, 

 We have been using the ELOG for several years and had inserted hyper-links instead of whole files in order to save storage space. From this month our server is moved to a new location with a new address. Is there a way for me to retrospectivelly replace all addresses with the new server file pass?

Thanks in advance, 

Best regards,

 Marta