[support] mail issue: new user registration email not being sent

[Bill Traynor]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Joel Willers <joel.willers at sigler.com>wrote:

> At /admin/user/settings is the Require e-mail verification... checked?  You
> might check through all of those settings to make sure that email is being
> generated.
>

Thanks Joel, those settings are set appropriately.

I think my trouble may be a result of no User 0 being present.   I'm going
to recreate it in test and see what happens.



> Joel
>
> From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
> Behalf Of Bill Traynor
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 8:30 AM
> To: support at drupal.org
> Subject: [support] mail issue: new user registration email not being sent
>
> Hello,
>
> I've inherited a community site (meld.org) running Drupal and I'm
> struggling with a problem that appears to have been present for some time
> now.  When a new user registers on the site, Drupal indicates that the new
> user registration email with password and next steps has been sent to the
> user, but that mail never gets generated.  I've been researching this
> problem for a week now and see that it's cropped up for many users in the
> past, with the possible solution being found here:
> http://drupal.org/node/353797#comment-4426896
>
> So here's what I know:
> Drupal 6.19
> PHP 5.2.17
> Apache 2.2.3 (RedHat)
> SimpleMail
> php.ini:  sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
>
> I can send mail manually from the box using:
> $sudo /usr/sbin/sendmail -f "admin at meld.org" to "btraynor at gmail.com" <
> test.mail
>
> And I verified that PHP can send mail from the machine as well.
>
> I've tried using the SMTP Authorization module with the Outgoing Mail
> logging module and generating a Test message does NOT send a mail out, but
> does log it as if it had in the Outgoing Mail logging report.  However,
> /var/log/maillog shows nothing.
>
> Beyond simply starting to upgrade everything one by one, I'm at a loss.
>
> Any thoughts on next steps would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Bill Traynor
> Technical Writer & Community Manager of Meld.org
> MontaVista Software, LLC
> 2929 Patrick Henry Drive
> Santa Clara, CA 95054
>
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Bill Traynor
Technical Writer & Community Manager of Meld.org
MontaVista Software, LLC
2929 Patrick Henry Drive
Santa Clara, CA 95054
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