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Comment	>>> I'm still pondering whether it's not some kind of anti-spam >>> protection to use the recipient as the sender, so that you are only >>> able to send notifications if your authorized to do so. >> Any opinions on that, anyone? > > Thinking about this again, the $conf[reminder] setting is probably > crucial. It should be possible to define a fixed sender (+auth), > because it's not always the case that the user is also a valid email > sender. I.e. it is possible to have users with email addresses > external to the Horde server, and in that case sending with that > email from the Horde server would be wrong and potentially forbidden > by SPF or other rules. > > Is it desirable to try sending the mail without authentication first > and then use the stored credentials? > > Using the default e-mail address of the owner of the calender doesn't > really change the situation here I think, because how can it be > ensured that _this_ address can be used for sending mail without > authentication? > > The only other solution I could think of would be to let the users > decide how to send emails "in their name" when they are not logged > in, potentially requiring them to save their mail credentials in the > settings. I don't think we want to go down that route? > > Since I'm also interested in making this work for me, I could take a > look at the $conf[reminder] settings and see how to make them work if > noone else is already planning to work on this.
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