Posts made by Visvanath Ratnaweera

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Why do you let Google control you? Ask the Moodle Docs, for example Step-by-step_Installation_Guide_for_Ubuntu. I have installed Moodle on Debian since Debian 5, never needed anything libicu67. The php_extension intl I know is php_intl, which you fetch with 'apt-get install php_intl'.
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What are "files attached to courses"? Do you mean the File resource?

It is possible that you messed up the file permissions in the moodledata/filedir/. You have to make sure that the owner of the web server, in Ubuntu Linux 'www-data', can read those files.

In fact www-data needs write permissions in the whole moodledata/. Can you make a new file resource or whatever those files are?
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You have to be more specific.

> Sending them via a Cronjob gives:

Does it mean you write a forum post and when Moodle tries to send it after the usual delay, it throws this error? Does this error get logged in the server logs through Debugging or do you have the mail debugger plug-in https://moodle.org/plugins/local_mailtest installed?

> While via Moodle-Web its the known:

Is it the Test email form you can call from the server mail settings?

As the errors suggest the gmx server doesn't like some field in the mail being sent, typically From (envelope), From: and To:. Usually when a (free) service gives you permissions to send mail, the mail has to satisfy certain conditions, like the From address, they might even look for content, "noreply" is a common culprit.

Either way, free services are ok for testing and hobby but not for a professional site. Either you go for a commercial SMTP service or run your own SMTP agent, each with their advantages and disadvantages.
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The running joke, people would call it a meme today, I think, was that nobody has seen Patrick, the benevolent dictator and one-man show behind Slackware - not even a photo. He was so secretive. I don't know who started using the SubGenius as his avatar but once started the geeks let loose their creativity.
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