You can also use gmail for sending e mails and use gmails smtp server -- check out <a href="http://drupal.org/project/smtp">http://drupal.org/project/smtp</a> and <a href="http://drupal.org/project/phpmailer">http://drupal.org/project/phpmailer</a> <div>
<br></div><div>to make these work u will need php extension for open ssl as gmail only accepts ssl connections to its servers.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Dan Horning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.horning@planetnoc.com">dan.horning@planetnoc.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">You should then be able to use your ISP's mail server - make sure your send<br>
from email is set to the same as your personal address.<br>
<br>
FYI - You may need to authenticate to your ISP's mail server<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: <a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">support-bounces@drupal.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org">support-bounces@drupal.org</a>] On<br>
> Behalf Of John Mitchell<br>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 8:48 AM<br>
> To: Dipen<br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:support@drupal.org">support@drupal.org</a><br>
> Subject: Re: [support] Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site<br>
> administrator if the problem persists.<br>
><br>
> No I don't have any email server setup. I am prototyping on my local<br>
> workstation.<br>
><br>
> John<br>
><br>
> On 4/7/10, Dipen <<a href="mailto:dipench@gmail.com">dipench@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Is your mail server set up?<br>
> ><br>
> > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 3:56 PM, John Mitchell<br>
> <<a href="mailto:mitchelljj98@gmail.com">mitchelljj98@gmail.com</a>>wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> I get the below error when I initially set up drupal and whenever it<br>
> >> tries to send an email:<br>
> >><br>
> >> * warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost"<br>
> >> port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or<br>
> use<br>
> >> ini_set() in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat<br>
> >> 6.0\webapps\drupal\includes\mail.inc on line 193.<br>
> >> * Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if<br>
> >> the problem persists.<br>
> >> * warning: mail(): Failed to connect to mailserver at "localhost"<br>
> >> port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in php.ini or<br>
> use<br>
> >> ini_set() in C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat<br>
> >> 6.0\webapps\drupal\includes\mail.inc on line 193.<br>
> >> * Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if<br>
> >> the problem persists.<br>
> >><br>
> >> How do I fix this?<br>
> >><br>
> >> Thanks,<br>
> >><br>
> >> John<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> John J. Mitchell<br>
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> >><br>
> ><br>
><br>
><br>
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> John J. Mitchell<br>
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