Hi, i installed a fresh xoops-2.0.17 on byethost13.com. Evrything works fine, excepting that i can´t send mails.
no even the autentification mail.
I ve tried on differents accounts(yahoo, gmail, hotmail), but none of them seems to work.
With the phpmail() option it says that evrything went ok, but the mail never arrives.
With sendmail i get this error "Could not execute: /usr/sbin/sendmail".Sendmail is supossed to be activated in this server.
With smtpauth, when i try to connect to a gmail account i get this error "SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host." Gmail says that i m supposed to select 465 or 587 ports, but i can´t find anywhere to config this.


If someone has any idea of what should i do, i will be deeply thankfull.

well with smtpauth XOOPS defaults the port to 25...SO:

go to /class/mail/phpmailer/class.smtp.php

find


change it to

(I use 587 to connect to gmail)

then find

and on the blank line directly above it put

And try again


OR if you wanna try sendmail again....try changing the sendmail path in your admin panel to


and see if that works....if not, ask your host where sendmail is located

I tried the smtp modifications but got still the same error message.

On gmail help I found taht i should have this activated:

Use STARTTLS: Yes (some clients call this SSL)

I couldn´t find any option about starttls nor ssl, could this be somehow related??

Tnx

about sendmail I ve asked for the path and they sended me this
/usr/sbin/sendmail -f mail@estudedu.byethost13.com

estudedu.byethost13.com---> it´s my page.

I used this (the full thing) and im still getting the same error.

Ok, just wanted to tell how things went.
My page is fully working now. on www.estudedu.net.tc
The thing is that byethehost only allows paid users to use smpt, so its imposible to use.
the phpmail() function works, but not for hotmail. your mails wont even get to the spam can.
Sendmail also works, but mails arrival can take a while, like a few days to a week.
so... that´s all.