sending email with TLS auth

[masscrx]

Hi!
I have cacti 0.8.7g with Plugin Architecture Version: 2.8. I want send email notification by SMTP server of php mail() function, but i have account on outlook.com where is TLS authentication, when i try to send test email from cacti i got this error:

Checking Configuration...
Method: SMTP
Creating Message Text...

This is a test message generated from Cacti. This message was sent to test the configuration of your Mail Settings.

Your email settings are currently set as follows

Method: SMTP
Host: amsprd0402.outlook.com
Port: 587
Authenication: true
Username: mailer@akademiasztuki.eu
Password: (Not Shown for Security Reasons)

Sending Message...

ERROR: SMTP Host does not appear to support authenication: 504 5.7.4 Unrecognized authentication type
SMTP Host does not appear to support authenication: 504 5.7.4 Unrecognized authentication type

I tried to edit /usr/share/cacti/site/plugins/settings/include/mailer.php by adding on line 735 this: fputs($smtp_sock, "STARTTLS\r\n"); :

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/* Perform Authenication - If username and password set */                                                                           
if ((! empty($this->Config["Mail"]["SMTP_Username"])) && (! empty($this->Config["Mail"]["SMTP_Password"]))) {                        
fputs($smtp_sock, "STARTTLS\r\n"); <-- i add this                                                                                                                 
fputs($smtp_sock, "AUTH LOGIN\r\n");                                                                                         
$smtp_response = fgets($smtp_sock, 4096);                                                                                    
if (substr($smtp_response,0,3) != "334") {                                                                                   
$this->Error = "SMTP Host does not appear to support authenication: " . $smtp_response;                              
fclose($smtp_sock);                                                                                                  
return false; 

But adding this doesnt help

Any idea?

[TheWitness]

I believe that there may be some handshaking required. Please log a bug and include the detail from this post at http://bugs.cacti.net

[rony]

The SMTP mailer doesn't currently support TLS.

Do put a bug in.

[splinter510]

Long time fan of Cacti, but new member here.

Was wondering if the issue with the SMTP mailer using TLS ever was addressed?

[kkuma]

I think its not supports yet. If TLS or SSL can support, please let me know. Stuck with email alert thing for days.

[phalek]

I think the next Cacti version is going to include an advanced "settings" plugin using the PHPMailer addon. This one does indeed support TLS then.

[kkuma]

Hello Guys,

Just an update. I managed to send email with ssl. The problem I had was with SELINUX. After set to permissive, it worked.
On tls option, iam still having a trouble because email server responds as "synchronization error".

Cheers

[williambonomo]

TLS aut was released?

[flooreus]

All,

I was just wondering if there has been any movement on having TLS authentication enabled in Cacti?

If not, is there any way I will be able to use SMTP to send e-mails using publicly-available SMTP servers? These e-mails do not need to be particularly secure as no sensitive information is being transmitted, so if anyone can help that'd be appreciated. I've tried a few, but none of them seem to work. As SSL support is being dropped more and more it's getting harder to find one that doesn't only support TLS

Regards,

Tom