E-cards

[cameron62]

I have Coppermine 1.3.2, I have  no problem sending an ecard with a user account I created that is not the admin account just a regular user in a group I created called "Family".  The problem I have is additional users to this group are unable to send e-cards the error that appears on the screen is: "Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 553 You are not authorized to send mail as" Any suggestions.

[Joachim Müller]

this is not a matter of coppermine setup, but mail server setup. Contact your webhost.

[cameron62]

I am running coppermine on my own server at home, I am using my own email account from my isp.  I would have thought that all users would use this same account to send e-cards.  I place the followin in the php.ini file


[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = outgoing.verizon.net ; for Win32 only
smtp_port = 25
sendmail_from= myemailaddress@verizon.net ; for Win32 only

; For Win32 only.
;sendmail_from = me@example.com

; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
;sendmail_path =

[Joachim Müller]

well, in this case you're lucky: you know the person who administers your webserver. Ask him to do you a favour and set up smtp correctly for you on the server .
FYI: smtp is a service that needs to run on the same server your webserver is on, or it has to point to an smtp server that will accept to relay. Your ISP certainly won't relay for others, only for your email account; they would be an open relay abused by spammers soon if they didn't, that's why.

Joachim

P.S. If you browse this board you will find out that I always advice newbies not to run their own webserver - this advice goes for you as well. I don't say so because I want to sound rude, but because there's a huge security thread in running your own server - it's a hard job even for a pro to fix all security vulnerabilities, you (as a newbie) simply shouldn't even try.