[support] emails not being sent by drupal 7

[Jamie Holly]

Windows doesn't have a mail server on it by default, so you need to 
point SMTP to a machine that has the server software to send mail (ie: 
sendmail).

Here's the problem, especially with local testing. Most mail servers 
won't let you send mail through them without authentication. If you are 
running a mail server that allows mail to be sent without 
authentication, then you can plan on being blacklisted by most email 
providers within a couple of months because you are running a spammers 
heaven.

So you only have a couple of routes around this. The first is to have 
whatever IP addresses you are connecting to the SMTP server from to be 
white listed so they don't need to authenticate. Your hosting provider 
might set this up for you, but many won't (fear of arbitrary addresses 
that can be used to connect in and send spam).

The best and much simpler route it to use the SMTP module:

http://drupal.org/project/smtp

No php.ini changes. Instead just upload it, activate it and setup the 
server settings in the module configuration screen. You can use any mail 
server you have POP/SMTP access to, including the one from your ISP. 
That's it.

Jamie Holly
http://www.intoxination.net
http://www.hollyit.net

On 7/27/2012 1:04 AM, Anthony wrote:
> Sorry I didn't get back to this earlier.
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/mail.configuration.php#ini.smtp
>
> my local wamp php.ini says:
> [mail function]
> ; For Win32 only.
> ; http://php.net/smtp
> *
> ; so you are saying this line
> SMTP = localhost*
> *; should be changed to*
> *SMTP = mail.example.com <http://mail.example.com>*
> *;?*
>
> ; http://php.net/smtp-port
> smtp_port = 25
>
> Plus the sendmail_from value.
>
> Perfect and thanks.
> Tony
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Earnie Boyd 
> <earnie at users.sourceforge.net <mailto:earnie at users.sourceforge.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 1:37 AM, Anthony wrote:
>     > On remote server it works. Locally nada:
>     >
>     > Unable to send e-mail. Contact the site administrator if the problem
>     > persists.
>     >
>     > Status message
>     >
>     > A welcome message with further instructions has been e-mailed to
>     the new
>     > user tonyx.
>
>     As others have already stated you need to modify your php.ini file and
>     give it a SMTP server for the mail.  Assuming your host name is
>     example.com <http://example.com> and you have a MX entry for the
>     DNS of mail.example.com <http://mail.example.com>
>     then your SMTP value will be mail.example.com
>     <http://mail.example.com>.  The common smtp_port
>     value is 25.  You also need to set the sendmail_from value to one of
>     the mail users you have on your bluehost system, for my example
>     admin at example.com <mailto:admin at example.com>.
>
>     --
>     Earnie
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>
>
>
> -- 
>
> */Anthony Stefan Maciejowski/*
>
>
>
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>

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