By ryanmnly on

I have a strange issue and I don't know where it is stemming from. I have 3 Drupal 5.x sites on my server, all with very little modification other than themes. Of the 3, 2 do not send e-mail via the built-in php function. The 3rd does send it. To my knowledge, this install is no different than the others. I have all the same modules enabled, except that the 3rd (the working one) has the Nice Menus module added. I administrate this server so I am confident they are all set up on the server-side the same. I do not wish to install SMTP, as I do no e-mail hosting.

So why would the 3rd install work, but not the first 2?

Thanks in advance, I always appreciate the help here.

-Ryan

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Comments

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justageek commented

this is typically a server issue with php and the mail daemon on the server. On the 2 the will not send email, will they send to no address, period, or only certain addresses. Have you tested multiple 'to' addresses?

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ryanmnly commented

yep, I did test that, but it looks like i found the problem. hopefully this will help someone else

i noticed i didnt set the permissions correctly for the mysql database access. i did not have the user able to "create temp tables" or "lock tables." once i did this, all works fine.

thanks,
ryan