[CDash] email credentials

[David Cole]

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately, the internal network I'm referring to is largely
ad-hoc, the CDash installation is on an AWS instance in the cloud, and
the only emails I can use to send are my own personal ones via SMTP on
"other people's servers" not inside the internal network...

I guess I can try to set up SMTP with a localhost restriction on the
AWS instance...

Thanks for the advice,
David C.


On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Chuck Atkins <chuck.atkins at kitware.com> wrote:
>> I am wondering if
>> this is the typical way others enable their CDash installations to
>> send mail.
>
>
> While I can't comment on the CDash configuration aspect, the need for
> credentials all depends on your SMTP server.  Typically an organization will
> have thier own SMTP server internally that outgoing mail will use that
> doesn't require credentials but only accepts connections from inside the
> network.  Similary, it's also typical to run an SMTP daemon on the local
> machine (i.e. sendmail or qmail) that doesn't require any credentials but
> only accepts connections from localhost.  You usually only need credentials
> if your using a publicly accessible external SMTP server (like google's,
> where you login with your gmail account) but that's less common.
>
> - Chuck