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Help & Support Email not working, server does not allow php mail
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neomerlin
Email not working, server does not allow php mail
27 January 2008 09:50
Anonymous
Have installed drakecms_0.4.10_RC6_r5356 and the server I've
installed it too has sent me the following when I queried why
emails can't be sent from the Drake CMS site.
Posted on 26 Jan 2008 3:16 AM PHP's defautl mail()
function is disabled on all the servers because it doesn't offer
mail server Authentication. Instead of use phpmail class for
sending mails from our server.
You can see more
details about the same at phpmailer.codeworxtech.com
You may like to check if DrakeCMS script allow smtp mail
authentication method.
Now I have absolutley no
idea how to do this, I do not know how to program.
Is
there anyone out there that can help?
lictnet
Re: Email not working, server does not allow php mail
27 January 2008 11:35
Anonymous
Hi, in the administrator control panel have a look under the
'System' 'Dragbot Manager' and you will see a dragbot titled
'SMTP Mailer'.
Click this and enter you SMTP details
as supplied by your ISP.
I think from then on Drake
should use these details to send email from the website. Also
ensure that "All" is selected for the 'Active in
following Sections' assuming you want Drake to use SMTP to send
email from all sections of the CMS.
Hope this helps
and if I'm wrong or have missed something I'm sure somebody will
correct me.
neomerlin
Re: Email not working, server does not allow php mail
27 January 2008 12:25
Anonymous
That's done the trick!
Thanks.
legolas558
Re: Email not working, server does not allow php mail
27 January 2008 14:34
Anonymous
Quote by lictnet:
I
think from then on Drake should use these details to send email
from the website. Also ensure that "All" is selected
for the 'Active in following Sections' assuming you want Drake to
use SMTP to send email from all sections of the CMS.
Only a minor precisation: it's not necessary
to specify the sections for this type of drabots, only the access
level matters.
Glad to see that NeoMerlin solved the
problem -
our SMTP mailer is in fact a modified version of the one provided
by PHPmailer
wakewatcher
Re: Email not working, server does not allow php mail
24 February 2008 03:41
Anonymous
I'm having trouble with this with my gmail account. From the
gmail smtp information I surmised that the smtp server would be
smtp.gmail.com and the smtp server port would be 465. Then the
SMTP authentication username is the gmail account name e.g
name@gmail.com and the smtp password would be the gmail password.
I don't know what the last field SMTP MAIL FROM means so left it
blank. I then set the access group to public and tried sending a
test message and it failed. So I'm not understanding something
about this.
legolas558
Re: Email not working, server does not allow php mail
04 March 2008 10:57
Anonymous
wakewatcher check the logs and tell us what's
the problem
Email not working, server does not allow php mail 
-
our SMTP mailer is in fact a modified version of the one provided
by PHPmailer