Topic: OK I'm brain dead-- How can I do this?

[edlentz]

I am going to be sending an email newsletter to my customers (approx300). Not a problem.  I want to include in the email a link to my Sme Server that would allow them to retrieve past issues of the newsletter.  I have tried FTP from the browser and that won't work, besides I am told that is to insecure.  It was suggested to use HTTPS with a password.  That is OK except that I can't figure it out.  I have looked in the How Tos, searched the forum with no luck.  Can someone point me to a How to or something?

Thanks Alot!

[gizzmo2k1]

I'm not sure if this is what you are looking for, but within SME you can create an ibay with the option to use a password.  It uses the ibay name as the username, and whatever you give it for the password.  Then, all you have to do is give the url starting with https://.  I do this with a program that i use for my clients to download updates called PHPFM (basically a gui FTP site).

[gordonr]

It was suggested to use HTTPS with a password.  That is OK except that I can't figure it out.  I have looked in the How Tos, searched the forum with no luck.  Can someone point me to a How to or something?

You need a URL of the form:

https://username:password@hostname/....

Note that you should not do this if the data is at all sensitive as the username and password are encoded in the URL.

I think a much better solution is to use a mailing list manager such as mailman. The users can have their own passwords and can retrieve the archives of the list - back issues in your case.