outbound smtp in modules

I'll look into the possibility of using Drupal's mail function, but forward currently just uses PHP's mail() function, so you could configure your PHP to send using SMTP.

If you have successfully configured Drupal to send SMTP mail, the forward module should now work with that. I basically just copied the user_mail() function from Drupal into my module as forward_mail() and stripped out the parts that caused html emails to not work. Please test it out (pull DRUPAL-4-7 version from CVS or wait a few hours for the tarball to update) and let me know how it works.