lang/en.utf8/help/forms/siteoptions.smtpsecure.html needs to be fixed.

Bug #768466 reported by Mitsuhiro Yoshida
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Mahara
Fix Released
Medium
Ruslan Kabalin

Bug Description

lang/en.utf8/help/forms/siteoptions.smtpsecure.html needs to be fixed as below.

[before]
<h3>SMTP Encryption</h3>
<p>If the SMTP server supports encryption, enable it here.</p>
<p>When encryption is enabled the default ports are 465 for SSL and 587 for TLS. If your settings are different from default make sure that the port setting is correct. Check correct settings with your mail service provider.</p>
<p>This field may be disabled if overridden by a setting in your config.php file.</p>

[after]
<h3>SMTP Encryption</h3>
<p>If the SMTP server supports encryption, enable it here.</p>
<p>This field may be disabled if overridden by a setting in your config.php file.</p>

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Ruslan Kabalin (rkabalin) wrote :

Hi Mitsuhiro, why do you think this has to be changed? It ensures that correct post is used with chosen encryption method.

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Ruslan Kabalin (rkabalin) wrote :

sorry, a typo - port, not post

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Mitsuhiro Yoshida (mits) wrote :

Hi Ruslan,

Because we have same text on lang/en.utf8/help/forms/siteoptions.smtpport.html as below.

<h3>SMTP Port</h3>
<p>If SMTP server uses a port number different from 25, you may specify it here.</p>
<p>When encryption is enabled the default ports are 465 for SSL and 587 for TLS. You only need to specify a port number if it's different from these. Check the correct settings with your mail service provider.</p>
<p>This field may be disabled if overridden by a setting in your config.php file.</p>

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François Marier (fmarier) wrote :

Hi Ruslan,

Now that you've made the default ports be the right ones when encryption is on (which is awesome!), I think that Mits might be right in saying that it's probably not necessary to have the bit about the port in the "SMTP Encryption" help file as well.

Cheers,
Francois

Changed in mahara:
status: New → Confirmed
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Ruslan Kabalin (rkabalin) wrote :

When encryption is in use, user should know that it might be required to specify the port as well if it is different from standard and the more strightforward way to let user know about that is to include the information to encryption setting help as well (that is what I did intentionally). Do you think guys we have to remove it?

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François Marier (fmarier) wrote :

I think that most people won't care since their servers will run on the usual ports. If they have a weird port, then they'll find that the SMTP port option is right above the other one in the site admin area :)

So, I would agree with Mits' suggestion that we remove the duplicate paragraph.

Changed in mahara:
assignee: nobody → Ruslan Kabalin (ruslan-kabalin)
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in mahara:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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