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This is definitely the right place to ask. I know that Wim at some point made an implementation, or at least part of an implementation, that never ended up being included. I can't guarantee that this feature will get in, though.

Our typical deployment scenario involves an SMTP server running on localhost that then relays emails through some other SMTP server, possibly using TLS. The Wt::Mail implementation was also kept very simple and is blocking, the idea being that it is usually handed to a local SMTP server that then makes sure it is properly transmitted (possibly reattempting transmission if necessary, etc.).

Roel Standaert wrote:

This is definitely the right place to ask. I know that Wim at some point made an implementation, or at least part of an implementation, that never ended up being included. I can't guarantee that this feature will get in, though.

Our typical deployment scenario involves an SMTP server running on localhost that then relays emails through some other SMTP server, possibly using TLS. The Wt::Mail implementation was also kept very simple and is blocking, the idea being that it is usually handed to a local SMTP server that then makes sure it is properly transmitted (possibly reattempting transmission if necessary, etc.).

I also have a local SMTP server, but I would like to run Wt in docker meaning that I would need to do some special setup with the current email client. I have other stuff running in docker that connects to the host's SMTP server with the host's public domain name and authenticates with an username and password, for simplicity's sake.

I would like to run Wt in docker

I was wondering about that as I was typing up the response. I don't know what the best way to do it with Docker would be either.

My work only added TLS, no authentication. Although I think that after implementing TLS, adding username&password auth is not too much work. The thing is that many authentication mechanisms are supported, I was unsure how to design the API. I forwarded my experimental code to Roel so he can consider to include it in Wt.

BR,

Wim.