Email Setup

Email Setup

by Kam Vento -
Number of replies: 1

 When creating a new account using "Is this your 1st time here" I get the following error:

ERROR: SMTP Error: Could not authenticate, tried to send you an email but failed. Moodle creates the user account  but outgoing email isn't sent.

System is Win 2003, Apache 2, PHP 4.3.1RC4 Moodle 1.9

Able to send email from server using outlook. Virtual SMTP appears to be setup correctly.

The following lines are from php.ini

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = smtp.citlink.net ; for Win32 only

; For Win32 only.
sendmail_from =  ; for Win32 only

Configure Variables

SMTPHOSTS smtp.citlink.net

SMTPUser (Set to my user name to access ISP email)

SMTPPassword (Set to my password to access ISP based email)

Thanks for any suggestions

  
 
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Re: Email Setup

by Kam Vento -

Found the solution. Use the actual IP in the SMTP area, as some ISP hosts are using virtual mail. Secondly, make sure you have the right password for your SMTP account. Et Voila!

Sometimes things are simple. Pretty good when you answer your own post, yessmiley.gif

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