Email setup moodle 2.5

Email setup moodle 2.5

by Adam Cripps -
Number of replies: 4

Having problems with this - the install has worked fine, apart from the part where a user can request a forgotten password email. However, I get sent on to a page where it reports the error: Error sending password change confirmation email

I have tried entering in a smtp server for a gmail account, with no success. 

Ideally, I would like to leave that field blank so that PHP hanles all the email. Am I missing something in php that needs to be installed to send email? 

The cron job is setup according to the docs. 


Any tips gratefully appreciated. 
TIA

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Re: Email setup moodle 2.5

by Luis de Vasconcelos -

See: http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Email_setup_gmail and the SMTP Problems- Total Email Failure discussion.

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Re: Email setup moodle 2.5

by Adam Cripps -

Thanks - I already tried the gmail setup with no success. The other thread recommends using critsend, which is something our admin will not tolerate. Hmm - I'll try debugging for a while and see what happens. 

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Re: Email setup moodle 2.5

by Iroshini Ratnapala -

I have also configured SMTP server for my Moodle 2.5 site and it is working fine with messaging and forum posting.  But it is not working when a user requests the forgotten password email. It gives the following error message.

Error sending password change confirmation email

Can someone help me to solve this issue?

Thanks

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Re: Email setup moodle 2.5

by John Andrewartha -

If you are using Debian or Ubunto as the server, it may be caused by the smtp. If I remember by default php looks for Sendmail which is not installed by default.

From a cli type sendmail -v if installed it should respond.  If not aptitude install sendmail  to install.

I assume you have superuser privilages "root"

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