configure MTA for BaseEmail

[bararchy]

how do I do this^ :)

[paulcsmith]

Hey @bararchy! Can you describe what you mean by MTA? I've not heard of that before

[bararchy]

@paulcsmith Sorry for later response, MTA stands for mail transfer agent and usually is refereed when talking of the next step an SMTP based client should go to to send emails.

What I was asking is how I tell carbon to send emails via x.x.x.x:25 etc.. and not using other service\site

[paulcsmith]

@bararchy No problem :) You'd have to build an SMTP adapter. Carbon is extendable so you can write one separately. You can see an example here: https://github.com/luckyframework/carbon/blob/master/src/carbon/adapters/send_grid_adapter.cr

It basically takes an email and then you can send it however you'd like :)

Does that answer your question?

[bararchy]

@paulcsmith I see, makes sense then, i was kinda surprised to find no SMTP support builtin because it's kinda the basis of email technology.

anyway, I'll see if I can make it my weekend project :)

[paulcsmith]

@bararchy Yeah that makes sense. It's so much easier to work with SendGrid and most people prefer it (I think) but it would be awesome to have an SMTP adapter as well! If you get it working feel free to open an issue here and I'll add it to the README so people can use it. LMK if you need any help with the adapter