[support] Setting up HTTP server in Ubuntu for Drupal 7

[Jason Flatt]

Your mail messages (or the error messages) are most likely being 
delivered to your local computer.  That's what "SMTP Server : localhost" 
says to do.  Look in either /var/spool/mail or $HOME/Mail* directories 
(depends on the mail server you have installed and how it's configured).

You either need to configure your installed mail server to send email 
the normal way (there are a number of Ubuntu tutorials that cover that), 
or you need to configure the SMTP Authentication Support module to use 
an external mail server, like Gmail (localhost isn't an external mail 
server -- that's the local computer).  The easier option is the latter 
one, but you need to figure out the details for either for your 
particular situation.


On 01/12/2012 04:42 AM, Sajith Kariyawasam wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm quite new to Drupal and started working with Drupal 7.
>
> My development environment is Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit platform
>
> I created an admin user and now i need to let other external users to
> register in my web site.
>
> When a user tries to register, it asked for the email address, and when
> submit the message appears as the mail has been sent to the provided
> address.
>
> But when I checked in the inbox its not there. I have installed *SMTP
> Authentication Support *module as well, and its in active state.
>
> I guess Ubuntu comes default with a mail server running in port 25, so
> in SMTP Authentication Support config page i have given parameters as
> follows
>       SMTP Server : localhost
>       SMTP port : 25
>       Use encrypted protocol : No
>
> And when i send a test mail, it also says the mail has been sent
> successfully but it cannot be found in the mail (not in the spam even)
>
>
> Please help
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> --
> Best Regards
> Sajith


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