Question

I've got a new TWiki Debian installation and have configured Configuration with the following settings...

$TWiki::cfg{SMTP}{MAILHOST}
exchangeserver.local
$TWiki::cfg{SMTP}{SENDERHOST}
exchangeserver.local
$TWiki::cfg{SMTP}{Username}
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Yet, when I try to register a new user I get, "Warning: Could not send confirmation email Mail could not be sent - see TWiki warning log. Too many failures sending mail"

Environment

-- SteveCarroll - 03 Apr 2007

Answer

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Is Net::SMTP installed and making configure happy? Have you tried the SMTP debug flag in configure (then check the webserver logs)

-- JustinLove - 08 Apr 2007

I thought Net:SMTP was installed by default w/ TwikiVmDebianStable so I am not sure otherwise. How can I tell? Haven't tried the debug flag. How do I enable that? Thanks for your help.

-- SteveCarroll - 09 Apr 2007

Probably asking a stupid question here - but is the VM able to lookup the exchangeserver.local in dns?

$ nslookup exchangeserver.local

If not you could choose to add the server to /etc/hosts or use the IP-address in configure instead.

-- SteffenPoulsen - 09 Apr 2007

guessing that this question is solved?

-- SvenDowideit - 24 Apr 2007