[support] Unable to send e-mail. Contact the site administrator if the problem persists

[Tim Johnson]

* Jamie Holly <hovercrafter at earthlink.net> [131215 16:30]:
> On 12/15/2013 3:50 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
> >    Hello Jamie :
> > > What's your email address set in the E-Mail address field on
> > > Administration > Configuration > System > Site information?
> >    tim at tj49.com
> >
> >    The errors listed above are the ones when I attempt to send
> >    mail using the PHP mail() function in the test PHP file.
> >    FYI: on Mac OSX _www is the apache user.
> 
> You still need to check that _www is a user in Postfix. Since you have 
> your Postfix configured to verify_sender, it's asking the server if that 
> is an actual user or not. If it isn't then the email is rejected. It 
> really all depends on how your installation of Postfix is setup for the 
> user base (aliases, ldap, etc.)
    Will do, I think that is done thru aliases, will 'man aliases'
	soon.
> >    It is a different issue when I attempt to send email using the
> >    smtp authentication module - see below
> > > ini('sendmail_path', '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f tim at akwebsoft.com');
> >    That was added, and caches were cleared.
> >
> >    Did a test send from my smtp auth module.
> >    I got three error messages (as per subject line) from the module.
> >    Looking at the drupal logs - I see this:
> >
> That INI setting won't have any affect on SMTP. SMTP sends emails 
> through the PHPMailer package, which doesn't use mail() at all, but 
> rather uses PHP's sockets and handles everything internally. Try 
> disabling SMTP and using that ini setting, see if you can send through 
> Drupal. That will use the regular PHP mail() function, which is nothing 
> more than a wrapper for the system's sendmail command.
   disabled SMTP, sent message through contact form successfully,
   no error messages.

   thanks again, Jamie
   More on aliases once I grok the usage
   cheers
-- 
Tim 
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com, http://www.tj49.com