By achilleas on

Hi there,

I am new to Drupal, only 3 weeks, so this is my very first site. I use Drupal 6 on Windows XP. In order to install Drupal I used an Acquia installation download, that installed all that was necessary (Apachi, php, Mysql).

I am creating the site locally first (localhost), and once I am happy with it I will upload it on my host's server.

Now, I have developed a site with 5 pages, one of them is the "Contact" page. When I try to use this page, even I get the message "Your message has been sent".. still, I receive nothing.

Also, when I use the "create new account" functionality, there is no email being sent to the user that is creating the account. I have checked my "recent log entries" it says that all is well basically.. e.g. "Password reset instructions mailed to USER1 at uSER1@PROVIDER.com."

Is there something that I am doing wrong, or that I have omitted?

I would really appreciate it if you could help me.

Thank you,
Achilles

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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paragon77’s picture

paragon77 commented

See if this topic will help or not...

http://drupal.org/node/636954

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achilleas commented

Hi !

I read the post, and the first thing that comes to mind is that he is saying that he is using "drupal mail module"...
I checked on my modules and there is not such a module there! I searched for it in the Drupal site and I found out that is not being used any more.. Maybe the problem is there.. like not having installed the necessary module.. Do you happen to know what is the "default" Drupal module for sending emails?

Thanx for the help!

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paragon77 commented

I think that drupal uses sendmail or postfix by default, and those are usually found on Linux servers. Check with who you will be hosting with for what mail services they use.

I am betting that the issue you are having is because there is no mail server running on your localhost machine.

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arhak commented

that's why I suggested using the smtp module, which will allow to use any external smtp server

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achilleas commented

I will give it a try now... thanx!

Achilles M

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achilleas commented

OK.. an update....

First, I didn't have any mail server running on my localhost machine. I wasn't sure what to do so I started IIS and configured SMTP there....

IIS was using port 80 (same as Apache), so I changed Apache to use port 82

SMTP was having troubles starting returning me an error... I fixed the error by changing SMTP's TCP port to 24 (it used to be 25).
I also went to my php.ini and changed the settings there to reflect this change:

[mail function]
; For Win32 only.
SMTP = localhost
smtp_port = 24

Still... when I try to send a mail (e.g. try to create new user account), no email is being send.

I am kind of stuck again...

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arhak commented

XAMPP comes with mail (Mercury)

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achilleas commented

I dont want to uninstall everything and re-install XAMPP... i would rather manage to set up the SMTP of the IIS...

Now it comes up with a message "Unable to send e-mail. Please contact the site administrator if the problem persists."

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arhak commented

EDIT: double post removed

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mcfilms commented

I turned the Triggers module on and this problem started. I turned it off and mail was sent again.

A list of some of the Drupal sites I have designed and/or developed can be viewed at motioncity.com

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achilleas commented

it was off when I checked.... but thanx anyway

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achilleas commented

I will give it a try now... thanx!

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arhak commented

also check out these modules for using an external smtp server

http://drupal.org/project/phpmailer
http://drupal.org/project/smtp

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achilleas commented

thanx mate! See the "update" to see where I am now...