I have an intranet running on a Ubuntu Server, and I am just not sure what I am supposed to do to send emails with Drupal. I create a user account and the system tells me the user will be notified but it does nothing. My inclination is that I have to somehow tie an email server to Drupal but I am not sure how or what the next step is.

Any help?

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Drupal usually just uses the

Drupal usually just uses the email server configured on its host server without much fuss. I suspect the server you are running has either no email service running or has configuration/firewall issues.

These links might help
http://drupal.org/node/11570

http://groups.drupal.org/node/20121

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MailServer

http://www.howtoforge.com/

or you could try setting up to use an another SMTP server using a contrib module http://drupal.org/project/smtp

Good luck

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