SMTP Mail NOT Sending...ugggh.

[Sandusky]

Hello,

We cannot get Coppermine to send out an email for registration verification or ecards. We have tinkered with the mailer.inc.php file several times using both the IP address and the actual mail.xxxxxxx.com that is our smtp setup used for all our other servers.

Our phpbb sends mail just fine when users register with that. No, Coppermine and our phpbb are not tied together..yet.

I also checked permissions on the mail.inc.php, those appear to be okay, but then again I'm not exactly sure what the permissions on that file should be.

Could it be there is something not configure properly on the web server? If so, then why would the phpbb be able to send and receive emails? Doesn't make sense.

We're on OS X 10.3 Apache 1.3.9 and Coppermine 1.3.3

Any help here is greatly appreciated. We're trying to go live a week from today! The site is under development but you can get to it from here: 

http://spotted.funcoast.com

THANKS!!!!

Coppermine rocks.

[Joachim Müller]

did you try sendmail first? Only use smtp if sendmail doesn't work as expected.

Joachim

P.S. How did you manage that phpBB doesn't only send emails, but can receive emails as well, and what is this suppossed to be good for?

If so, then why would the phpbb be able to send and receive emails?

[Sandusky]

Hello,

OS X 10.3 doesnt' use Sendmail any longer, it uses Postfix.

Your correct our phpbb doesn't "receive" email, I meant that it sends users a registration email and they are able to reply back by clicking on the url that sends them back to the bbs. Sorry for the confusion on that.

Here is an example of what I pulled from the server's mail log:

May 20 08:51:21 bbsserver postfix/smtp[6059]: 0DBCB61D533: to=<sanduskyregisterorc@yahoo.com>, relay=none, delay=59496, status=deferred (connect to mx4.mail.yahoo.com[68.142.202.12]: Connection refused)

Does this help?

Thanks.

[Joachim Müller]

leave the smtp settings empty: if your webserver is configured properly, it will handle the emails using postfix in the same manner as if sendmail was installed - in fact postfix is a sendmail clone when it comes to functionality within a php script. Edit include/mailer.inc.php, find the stuff you changed and set it back to how it was before you started modifying it -

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$CONFIG['smtp_host'] = '';
$CONFIG['smtp_username'] = '';
$CONFIG['smtp_password'] = '';. Should work with postfix.