It seems as if the mailer is not working on my site. My hosting provider has the smtp server configured so that a pop connection has to be initiated just prior to sending mail (to avoid being used for SMTP relay) As a result, I left Moodle configured to use the default php mailer, and it seems to work ok for sending password confirmations or changes, but not for sending new forum posts.
I've already eliminated the possibility of the cron job being the culprit by running cron.php prior to checking for mail. It outputs that items have been processed, but when I check the mail, there's nothing.
Ideas appreciated.
Thanks,
RWW