Mail Entry Plugin not Mailing

DortoH · Post by **DortoH** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 6:38 pm

I have setup the Mail Entry plugin in v0.7.1 but the new entries are not being mailed. Is there some further configuration that needs to be set up? Possibly something my hosting providers needs to do?

reion · Post by **reion** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 7:36 pm

you me need a mail-server ... or services ... some kind of that

DortoH · Post by **DortoH** » Fri Mar 04, 2005 8:38 pm

I understand but is there somewhere in Serendipity where the mail server is specified?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sat Mar 05, 2005 12:51 pm

Serendipity uses the mail() function of PHP. PHP itself uses sendmail in the location it found when PHP got installed. If sendmail was not installed on the server, then the mail() function will fail.

Thus, your PHP webserver needs to support mail() so that the mail entries plugin can work.

Regards,
Garvin

DortoH · Post by **DortoH** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:52 am

ANyway to get it to work using FormMail.pl?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Mon Mar 07, 2005 12:16 pm

Dortoh: No way, I'm sorry. This is a different logic and a different language, and different alltogether.

Just talk to your Server Administrator, they should be able to compile PHP with sendmail support easily.

Regards,
Garvin

DortoH · Post by **DortoH** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:44 pm

Do all the plugins require the same type of email support? I use the spamblocker plugin which emails me as I set all comments to moderated. I recieve all these emails.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:45 pm

Yes, both facilities use the same method of sending mails.

It may then very well be that your provider only allows your webserver to send mails to your domain, and not to other people. You should ask him if that kind of restriction is in effect.

Regards,
Garvin