Multiple E-Mail Transport?

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I maintain one site that has a) a contact form and b) a newsletter sign-up form using the Uniform plugin.

For the contact form, I’d like to use as sender the email address info@, but for the newsletter I’d like the sender to be newsletter@.

Looking at the documentation for email transport setup, I only see a single SMTP option, which doesn’t work as both email addresses use different authentication.

Is this impossible then?

2

You don’t have to set transport settings in the config, you can do this on a per use case basis. I would expect that if you set a default transport array in your config, that you can also override this with local settings when calling $kirby->email().

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3

What happens when you don’t set any transport configuration anywhere?

4

Then Kirby will try to send via sendmail()

5

I guess then the question goes more towards @mzur whether I can set these config on the Uniform emailAction() :thinking:

The Uniform documentation states:

The email action accepts the same options than the email function of Kirby.

But last I tried to use multiple senders or similar, that didn’t actually work as described in the Kirby documentation.

6

But have you actually tried to set the transport options in the email action?

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After playing around with it a bit more, I came up with a solution that I like and that solves my issues

  • Uses different transport configurations for contact and newsletter forms
  • Works with Uniform
  • Keeps the authentication information in the config

config.php

    'smtp' => [
        'info' => [
            'type' => 'smtp',
            'host' => 'smtp.example.com',
            'port' => 587,
            'security' => true,
            'auth' => true,
            'username' => 'info@example.com',
            'password' => 'TopSneaky',
        ],
        'newsletter' => [
            'type' => 'smtp',
            'host' => 'smtp.example.com',
            'port' => 587,
            'security' => true,
            'auth' => true,
            'username' => 'newsletter@example.com',
            'password' => 'TopSneaky',
        ]
    ],

Contact Controller

$form->emailAction([
        'to' => iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $form->data('email')),
        'from' => 'info@example.com',
        'fromName' => iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", 'Supports öäü'),
        'replyTo' => 'info@example.com',
        'replyToName' => iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", 'Supports öäü'),
        'subject' => 'Subject Line',
        'template' => 'contact',
        'transport' => option('smtp.info')
    ])

Newsletter Controller

$form->emailAction([
        'to' => iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", $form->data('email')),
        'from' => 'newsletter@example.com',
        'fromName' => iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", 'Supports öäü'),
        'replyTo' => 'newsletter@example.com',
        'replyToName' => iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", 'Supports öäü'),
        'subject' => 'Subject Line',
        'template' => 'newsletter',
        'transport' => option('smtp.newsletter')
    ])

Thanks for all the hints and I hope this will help someone else in the future! :slightly_smiling_face:

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