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    • how to setup sendmail

    Posted by liucougar

    I just installed tikiwiki 1.8.5 (CVS) without any noticable problems except that I can not receive my registration confirm email.

    I have set the admin email but still can not get it.

    My host is the sourceforge.net

    Thanks

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    Posted by sylvie greverend

    I took the liberty to copy / paste a message from redflo publish in the user list . An excellent message - thanks to redflo

    Hi,

    You should really try to find out why mail does not work. Here's my
    receipt:

    - check the maillog (/var/log/mail or similar)


    - check mails of the sender for Mailer-daemon mails (Non delivery
    notifications). Sender is probably owner of the webserver process.


    - check the mails of postmaster (root)


    - try to send a mail with unix-tools:
    * sendmail method:
    /usr/lib/sendmail re...@em...
    some text. End mail with a single dot
    .
    * mail utility:
    mail re...@em...
    Subject: bla
    some text. End mail with a single dot
    .
    Cc:
    These tools have some debug switches: mail -v will show you some
    details.


    - try to send a mail using telnet:
    telnet localhost smtp
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    220 some.hostname.com ESMTP Sendmail 8.12.11/8.12.11; Sat, 27 Nov 2004 00:53:58 +0100
    ehlo bla.de
    250-some.hostname.com Hello some.hostname.com 127.0.0.1, pleased to meet you
    250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
    250-PIPELINING
    250-8BITMIME
    250-SIZE
    250-DSN
    250-ETRN
    250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 PLAIN LOGIN
    250-DELIVERBY
    250 HELP
    mail from: ww...@so...
    250 2.1.0 ww...@so...... Sender ok
    rcpt to: so...@so...
    250 2.1.5 so...@so...... Recipient ok
    data
    354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
    some text
    .
    250 2.0.0 iAQNrwjj014061 Message accepted for delivery
    quit
    221 2.0.0 some.hostname.com closing connection
    Connection closed by foreign host.


    - next you should find out if php can send a mail. Write a php program:



    Note that these are only basic tests. email may not be trivial if there
    are mailrouting or relaying problems. Sending mail via a php-webdriven
    SMTPserver script is no good idea - it usually breaks rfc's as a
    mailserver may temporary reject your mail. Proper MTA's (Mail transfer
    agents) retry later. You cannot do that easily with a apache-php script.
    Today a growing number of SMTP servers use a feature called greylisting to
    avoid spam. The principle is to reject a mail temporary. If the MTA
    retries later again, the mail gets delivered. If the MTA does not try
    again, he is blacklisted, because most spammer-tools use a fire & forget
    mail system do do their job. So: do you want your IP blacklisted? No? Then
    use sendmail/postfix/exim/qmail .... even exchange can do the job 😊

    Flo


    Posted by liucougar

    thanks for all your advice.

    But unfortunately, I can not see the log file in SF.net: I do not have such privilege.

    It seems to me that no other specific settings are needed for the tiki to send email properly

    I will try to write a simple php script and run it in sf to see what will happen.

    Thanks again.

    BTW: anyone out there use tikiwiki on sf.net hosts?