I'm having no luck getting Moodle to send email at all.
Any help?
Thanks,
RLDWatson
I am having problems too. I have a fresh 1.2.1 installation on Debian Woody. I've posted elsewhere in this forum about the details.
After reading the forum, I noticed some good advice. For instance, if PHP will not send mail, try your own smtp host. If you can send mail from your own server, it might be configured as "localhost:25". Some have noticed that the port number was necessary (e.g., 25). I've tried variations of this for my situation to no avail. In my situation, OSCommerce is able to send mail using the default PHP settings, but Moodle 1.2.1 is not. That's beyond me.
After reading the forum, I noticed some good advice. For instance, if PHP will not send mail, try your own smtp host. If you can send mail from your own server, it might be configured as "localhost:25". Some have noticed that the port number was necessary (e.g., 25). I've tried variations of this for my situation to no avail. In my situation, OSCommerce is able to send mail using the default PHP settings, but Moodle 1.2.1 is not. That's beyond me.
Try debugging with the directions given in the following two posts:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=4721#22099
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=4721#22111
Also read the entire discussion.
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=4721#22099
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=4721#22111
Also read the entire discussion.
I've spent the last two days doing exactly what is described in the links provided to no avail.
I added the debug line, nothing.
I added the debug line, nothing.
Try subscribing yourself to a forum, post some messages to the forum, wait for editting time to expire, then go to
http://yoursite/admin/cron.php
and see what error messages appear.
http://yoursite/admin/cron.php
and see what error messages appear.
Here's the cron report I got after doing what you suggested:
Server Time: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:02:47 -0500
Processing post 6
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 6 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Processing post 7
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 7 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Processing post 9
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 9 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Processing post 8
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 8 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Running clean-up tasks...
Running backups if required...
Checking backup status...INACTIVE
Backup tasks finished
Cron script completed correctly
Execution took 3.333482 seconds
Server Time: Thu, 8 Apr 2004 10:02:47 -0500
Processing post 6
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 6 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Processing post 7
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 7 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Processing post 9
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 9 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Processing post 8
ERROR:
Error: mod/forum/cron.php: Could not send out mail for id 8 to user 1 (rwatson2@unl.edu) .. not trying again.
.... mailed to 0 users.
Running clean-up tasks...
Running backups if required...
Checking backup status...INACTIVE
Backup tasks finished
Cron script completed correctly
Execution took 3.333482 seconds
I don't think you followed these instructions of Martin's:
before this line
You should see more debugging info than that ... try editing
lib/moodlelib.php, find the email_to_user() function and add this line
$mail->SMTPDebug = true;
before this line
if ($mail->Send()) {
When I add this line to my moodlelib.php, I get a lot more messages from admin/cron.php:Processing post 1938+ many more lines.
SMTP -> get_lines(): $data was ""
SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "220 hermes.math.ohio-state.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:35:39 -0400
"
SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is "220 hermes.math.ohio-state.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:35:39 -0400
"
SMTP -> FROM SERVER:
220 hermes.math.ohio-state.edu ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.10/8.12.10; Thu, 8 Apr 2004 11:35:39 -0400
SMTP -> get_lines(): $data was ""
SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "250-hermes.math.ohio-state.edu Hello webwork2.math.ohio-state.edu [140.254.92.37], pleased to meet you
"
SMTP -> get_lines(): $data is "250-hermes.math.ohio-state.edu Hello webwork2.math.ohio-state.edu [140.254.92.37], pleased to meet you
"
SMTP -> get_lines(): $data was "250-hermes.math.ohio-state.edu Hello webwork2.math.ohio-state.edu [140.254.92.37], pleased to meet you
"
SMTP -> get_lines(): $str is "250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
"
I have set up the debug line just as directed.
However, I found online a unix script that turns on sendmail for me, and everything is now working fine!
Thanks for all your suggestions, much appreciated!
RLDWatson
However, I found online a unix script that turns on sendmail for me, and everything is now working fine!
Thanks for all your suggestions, much appreciated!
RLDWatson
Would you mind sharing the specifics of your new found knowledge - my magic wand is not working and I can't wave it today.
He probably means something like
/etc/init.d/sendmail start
This could all have been avoided by specifying a suitable SMTP server in the site settings by the sound of things. Beware: in a company/academic network your local sendmail server may be blocked from the outside world by a firewall so make sure you can send to external addresses if you need to do that!
/etc/init.d/sendmail start
This could all have been avoided by specifying a suitable SMTP server in the site settings by the sound of things. Beware: in a company/academic network your local sendmail server may be blocked from the outside world by a firewall so make sure you can send to external addresses if you need to do that!
Hi, I solve the problem in Debian GNU/Linux, see: