new OC_Mail class to handle all mail sending. The benefit is that is way mor flexible than the standard mail command. can be configured to use a remote smtp relay for example. also port the lostpassword code

config/config.sample.php

@@ -19,6 +19,11 @@ $CONFIG = array(
 "knowledgebaseurl" => "",
 "appstoreenabled" => true,
 "appstoreurl" => "",
+"mail_smtpmode" => "sendmail",
+"mail_smtphost" => "127.0.0.1",
+"mail_smtpauth" => "false",
+"mail_smtpname" => "",
+"mail_smtppassword" => "",
 // "datadirectory" => ""
 );
 ?>

core/lostpassword/index.php

@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ if (isset($_POST['user'])) {
 			$msg = $tmpl->fetchPage();
 			$l = OC_L10N::get('core');
 			$from = 'lostpassword-noreply@' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];
-			mail($email, $l->t('Owncloud password reset'), $msg, 'From:' . $from);
+			$r=mail($email, $l->t('Owncloud password reset'), $msg, 'From:' . $from);
+//if($r==false) echo('error'); else echo('works!!!!!!!');
+			OC_MAIL::send($email,$_POST['user'],$l->t('Owncloud password reset'),$msg,$from,'ownCloud');
+
 		}
 		OC_Template::printGuestPage('core/lostpassword', 'lostpassword', array('error' => false, 'requested' => true));
 	} else {

lib/mail.php

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2012 Frank Karlitschek <frank@owncloud.org>
+ * This file is licensed under the Affero General Public License version 3 or
+ * later.
+ * See the COPYING-README file.
+ */
+
+/**
+ * OC_Mail
+ *
+ * A class to handle mail sending.
+ */
+
+require_once('class.phpmailer.php');
+
+class OC_Mail {
+
+	/**
+	 * send an email 
+	 *
+	 * @param string $toaddress
+	 * @param string $toname
+	 * @param string $subject
+	 * @param string $mailtext
+	 * @param string $fromaddress
+	 * @param string $fromname
+	 * @param bool $html
+	 */
+	public static function send($toaddress,$toname,$subject,$mailtext,$fromaddress,$fromname,$html=0,$altbody='',$ccaddress='',$ccname='',$bcc='') {
+
+		$SMTPMODE = OC_Config::getValue( 'mail_smtpmode', 'sendmail' );
+		$SMTPHOST = OC_Config::getValue( 'mail_smtphost', '127.0.0.1' );
+		$SMTPAUTH = OC_Config::getValue( 'mail_smtpauth', 'false' ); 
+		$SMTPUSERNAME = OC_Config::getValue( 'mail_smtpname', '' ); 
+		$SMTPPASSWORD = OC_Config::getValue( 'mail_smtppassword', '' );  
+
+
+		$mailo = new PHPMailer();
+		if($SMTPMODE=='sendmail') {
+			$mailo->IsSendmail();
+		}elseif($SMTPMODE=='smtp'){
+			$mailo->IsSMTP();
+		}elseif($SMTPMODE=='qmail'){
+			$mailo->IsQmail();
+		}else{
+			$mailo->IsMail();
+		}
+
+
+		$mailo->Host = $SMTPHOST;
+		$mailo->SMTPAuth = $SMTPAUTH;
+		$mailo->Username = $SMTPUSERNAME;
+		$mailo->Password = $SMTPPASSWORD;
+
+		$mailo->From =$fromaddress;
+		$mailo->FromName = $fromname;;
+		$a=explode(' ',$toaddress);
+		foreach($a as $ad) {
+			$mailo->AddAddress($ad,$toname);
+		}
+
+		if($ccaddress<>'') $mailo->AddCC($ccaddress,$ccname);
+		if($bcc<>'') $mailo->AddBCC($bcc);
+
+		$mailo->AddReplyTo($fromaddress, $fromname);
+
+		$mailo->WordWrap = 50;
+		if($html==1) $mailo->IsHTML(true); else $mailo->IsHTML(false);
+
+		$mailo->Subject = $subject;
+		if($altbody=='') {
+			$mailo->Body    = $mailtext.OC_MAIL::getfooter();
+			$mailo->AltBody = '';
+		}else{
+			$mailo->Body    = $mailtext;
+			$mailo->AltBody = $altbody;
+		}
+		$mailo->CharSet = 'UTF-8';
+
+		$mailo->Send();
+		unset($mailo);
+
+		OC_Log::write('Mail from '.$fromname.' ('.$fromaddress.')'.' to: '.$toname.'('.$toaddress.')'.' subject: '.$subject,'mail',OC_Log::DEBUG);
+
+	}
+
+
+
+	/**
+	 * sending a mail based on a template
+	 *
+	 * @param texttemplate $texttemplate
+	 * @param htmltemplate $htmltemplate
+	 * @param data $data
+	 * @param To $toaddress
+	 * @param ToName $toname
+	 * @param Subject $subject
+	 * @param From $fromaddress
+	 * @param FromName $fromname
+	 * @param ccaddress $ccaddress
+	 * @param ccname $ccname
+	 * @param bcc $bcc
+	 */
+	public static function getfooter() {
+
+		$txt="\n--\n";
+		$txt.="ownCloud\n";
+		$txt.="Your Cloud, Your Data, Your Way!\n";
+		return($txt);
+
+	}
+
+
+
+}