By ff1 on

I've read the forums and followed every bit of advice I could find to get drupal sending emails, but nothing seams to work. The SMTP module is installed and reports that the massage has been sent successfully, it just never actually arrives.

Many people have suggested that it may be a host problem, but they have said that all settings are correct and it should work correctly. I had my doubts, so set up a test page as suggested in http://drupal.org/node/17603. This again reported that the message was sent successfully, but it never arrived. So, I suspect this is not actully a Drupal related problem, but since the users here seam to know loads about php and server setups, I thought I'd still ask.

Can anyone think what the problem might be? What php settings or server settings might affect whether mail gets sent or not?

I thought it might be the receiving email address that had the problem, so I've now tried it with about 10 different email accounts with different ISP's - still no success.

If anyone can help, I'd be really grateful.
Cheers,
Ian

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ff1 commented

Just checked the Drupal Admin Logs:

Error sending email: Language string failed to load: recipients_failedxxx@yyy.com From: aaa@bbb.com To: xxx@yyy.com

Any ideas?

ian
http://www.fantasyformula1.uni.cc

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Fusion_Sushi commented

But here are somethings to check:

1) Is your php.ini set to allow you to send email?
2) Have you tried phpmailer?

You could try a fresh install, just rename your web root and put a fresh set of files in a new dir and try it. When you solved the problem port it over to your original install.

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ff1 commented

Thanks for your reply.

It turns out that there was a problem with the sendmail setup on the webserver. I don't know what the problem was, but they've solved it now.

The fix coincided with the time that I began getting the 'Error sending mail...' messages. I've now uninstalled the SMTP module, and everything is working correctly.

I still don't know why the SMTP module didn't work properly, so if anyone can shed any light for other users, it may be handy.

Cheers,
ian
http://www.fantasyformula1.uni.cc