SMTP Probs [NOT SOLVED]

[Mdouden]

Hello,

i just set up a coppermine photo album.. But the mail function does not work with me..
Ecards and Conformation mails both do not work....
this is the error message i get :
The registration confirmation email can't be send !

I filled in my smtp server in the file :  include\mailer.inc.php
$CONFIG['smtp_host'] = 'post.demon.nl';

anyone?


thanks in advance!

[Joachim Müller]

did you fill in username and password as well? Post the modified lines of mailer.inc.php
Did you make sure you're server (or the one you're refering to) is set up to handle emails, and will it relay for you (certainly not without authentification)? Are you self-hosted or webhosted? Server OS? I recommend you post more details, usually a link and test user account (non-admin) with privileges to send ecards are a good point to start with.

Joachim

[Mdouden]

hej..
there is no need to fill in a user and password (no user authentication ) but i tried it anyway.. It disn't work.
I use my own server to host coppermine..
It's a W2K3 server with Apache 1.3.27; MySQL 4.0.12-nt and PHP 4.2.3

Here's my board :
Http://82.161.162.12/206club/

user: Test2
pass: testtest

thanks

P.S. i now get the error :
Could not connect to smtp host : 9 : Bad file descriptor

[Nibbler]

I get "550 relay not permitted" when I connect to it.

[Mdouden]

I get "550 relay not permitted" when I connect to it.

should be working right...

[kegobeer]

Have you tried the Microsoft troubleshooting tree yet?

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=323358#20

[Mdouden]

There is nothing in the MS tree that could help me..
I use a SMTP server of my ISP.

[kegobeer]

A lot of times when trying to use your personal SMTP for non-personal means, your host will reject attempts if the send from headers don't match your normal account.  You can try changing your email to whatever your ISP email address is.

For example, normally your email is webmaster@yoursite.com.  You'd change it to mdouden@myisp.com.

If you're still having troubles, there are plenty of free email servers for Windows.  You could use that and then not have to use SMTP at all.

[Mdouden]

My E-mail is in fact an emailadres from my ISP.. so that's is not gonna work..
Do you have a good SMTP package for my server?

[Joachim Müller]

IIS comes with SMTP (but I'm sure you don't want to throw apache away and use IIS instead, wouldn't recommend it at least). I've been looking into this some time ago (I was searching for an easy way to send emails from anywhere on a windows client) and I have come up with blat for use with another app (haven't used it with coppermine though). You might want to search for the terms "windows smtp server" both on the sf.net page or google for it as well. There is however no equivalent to sendmail (and/or it's clones) for windows (none that is free at least).

Joachim

[kegobeer]

http://www.mailenable.com/
http://www.pmail.com/
http://www.argosoft.com/mailserver/

All are free mail servers for Windows.  I had great success with the Argosoft server.

[Mdouden]

Will try all of them thanks!

[Mdouden]

I tried another thing..
Someone is hosting a linux SMTP server..
I can send a mail with outlook express using a username and password for his SMTP server...
That works perfectly..
But with coppermine it doesn't work..

I wonder if someone has the email thing working anyway??

[Joachim Müller]

sure, thousands have it working.

Joachim

[maxwellmax]

aight guys now im lost...during my install i was never instructed to fill in any smpt info (that i remember) nor was i told to do so in any instruction or install doc. ive looked over and over in the config screeen and there is no mention of smtp....well this is the drill ...
with this in mind "i havnt configured any smtp info in coppermine"
why does my mailings work???

i use smtp= "localhost" in my php.ini
i use windows advanced server
i use ISS
i do NOT use iss internal smpt
i do not use a unix child or sendmail either unix style or win32
i use IMAIL which is a SMPT server of it s own.listening on port 25...(which is configured as localhost)
and is configured for mail.turnkeyhost.com which is not configured for relaying except for local domains.
(the copper and imail and everything is working off this one box)

so i ask then do i still need to set these SMTP configurations in my /include/mailer.inc.php file as was mentioned in this thread..or should i just thank god it works anyway?

thank you kindly

Hello,

i just set up a coppermine photo album.. But the mail function does not work with me..
Ecards and Conformation mails both do not work....
this is the error message i get :
The registration confirmation email can't be send !

I filled in my smtp server in the file :  include\mailer.inc.php
$CONFIG['smtp_host'] = 'post.demon.nl';

anyone?


thanks in advance!

[kegobeer]

The instructions for smtp are in the documentation that came with Coppermine.  Look in the docs directory, click on index.htm, and search for smtp.

[lu-x]

Hi !

After configuring the mailer.inc for my account, I get the following message, when I try to send an e-card:

Ran into problems sending Mail. Response: 500 5.5.1 Command unrecognized: "AUTH LOGIN"

You can see the whole thing at
http://www.lu-x.de/base/index.php

thanx in advance for helping me!

[Tranz]

How exactly did you configure the file?

[lu-x]

Hi there,

I attached a file with the information of the mailer.inc.

Thank you.
L.

[Tranz]

NEVER EVER post account passwords publicly unless they are temporary non-admin test accounts. I removed the attachment. You should change your account password immediately.