MAMP OSX drupal won't mail

By daflow on 1 Dec 2006 at 20:37 UTC

Hi,

I can't get drupal to mail. Either passwords or newsletters (simplenews) won't be sent to the recipents. I work on a test environment which is based on a OSX Tiger installation with MAMP. I used the postfixenabler to enable the postfix mailing program, my mail.app is allowed to mail from localhost. But for drupal there is no result. I also took a look in PHP.ini an changed the the sendmail_path to /usr/sbin/sendmail, but also no result

Is there anybody with the same problem? or can somebody offer a solution?

Thanx in advance.

Grtz

daflow

Comments

Ok, fixed it

daflow commented 2 December 2006 at 09:43

After a 2 hour session, i got my mac to mail, it seems that my misconfigured posfixenabler was seen as spam by the recipent. Hotmail was accepting my mail like normal. Zo i did a little tweaking on the postfixenabler, and voila, got drupal mailing like a breeze.

Thanx for watching this post ;-)

Grtz daflow

MAMP

tknospdr commented 3 December 2006 at 02:39

Don't forget that the MAMP project is not for production servers. It says so right on their front page.

Thanks,
David

hey, how'dja do it? :)

neokio commented 18 April 2007 at 04:06

I'm scratching my brain trying to figure this one out...
Any chance you remember what you did?
What postfix enabler did you use, and what was the tweaking that made it work??
Many thanks!
N

Here's what I did

dmurphy commented 22 June 2007 at 15:11

I was having issues as well, and here's how I fixed it.

First, I used Postfix Enabler, available from cutedgesystems.com . It's $10, but well worth it. Make sure to put a valid domain name in the Masquerade as field.

I edited my php.ini file so that sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail .

Then in your drupal install, make sure to set a valid email address that drupal sends from. You do that at admin/settings/site-information.

That last bit was the hangup for me. All my messages were getting filtered out because I didn't have a valid email address setup.

There's also some good troubleshooting stuff on cutedgesystems.com if you're still stuck.

Postfix Configure for Mail Under MAMP and OSX

Markjdz commented 13 August 2007 at 08:06

I also set up a test environment with MAMP under OSX Tiger and was getting error messages when Drupal was trying to send emails, either when I created a new user or when I used Contact or the Mass Contact module. In the /var/log/mail.log error log, it looked like it was trying to send it from a username made up of myMacUsername@myComputersName.local.
I'm not sure why this worked, but I solved the problem by adding a line in /etc/postfix/main.cf - the postfix configuration file - that says:
myhostname = mail-hub.optonline.net
which is the mailserver for my email account with my internet provider.

I hope this helps out some other people.

Another possible explanation/solution

mikeryan

he/him

English

Murphysboro, IL, USA

commented 22 May 2008 at 16:32

I've been having the same problem, and found this thread and others on the Web centered on editing myhostname/mydomain/myorigin didn't help. The real problem - my ISP (RCN) appears to have blocked port 25. Solution: edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and add

relayhost = smtp.rcn.com

Hope this helps someone else...

Mike
Cyrve

Anything else needs to be

talino commented 13 September 2009 at 11:12

Anything else needs to be done for this to work? I've tried for the myhostname and relayhost and none of them worked. I restarted MAMP but still no dice. Am I missing something?

Thanks.

What I ended up doing to get

PixelClever commented 11 January 2010 at 20:52

What I ended up doing to get email working on mamp pro was to edit the php.ini file by going to file > edit template > php5 php.ini (Apparently mamp pro doesn't use the normal php.ini file located in the the mamp directory). In that file I edited the sendmail path like so:

sendmail_path =/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f Aaron@yoursitehere.com

Then I restarted the server and it worked.

This worked for me too.

ericdfields commented 24 February 2010 at 18:48

This worked for me too.

Not sure if it helped, but I also set 'myhostname' in /etc/postfix/main.cf to the corresponding mail server.

E.g. 'aaron@yoursitehere.com' in php.ini, so 'mail.yoursitehere.com' in main.cf

Drupal 6 one works, one doesn't

loganjr commented 2 July 2010 at 22:35

We have two instances of Drupal 6. The original installation sends e-mail just fine, but we installed another instance and e-mail is not delivered and no error indicated.

Jim