I'm using the newest Beta TWiki20010720beta and have applied all fixes from CVS.

When I try to use TWiki I get errors like

Software error:

Can't locate Net/SMTP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ../lib . 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i586-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) at ../lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 38.

on all pages. This is because the standard SuSE 7.2 Linux distribution has the Net::SMTP module not installed. However, from the comments in TWiki.cfg it seems to me, that such errors should not occur, because there is a fallback with direct calls to sendmail. Is this no longer the case?

The second problem I had, is that after installing I was unable to register. I tracked this down to an entry in TWikiPreferences where a SMTPMAILHOST is defined as "mail". This doesn't work because Twiki's Net.pm module cannot establish an SMTP connection in line 181

my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new( $mailhost );

The next call fails (it seems the $smtp wasn't checked before calling). It would be better to have this kind of setting in TWiki.cfg instead of TWikiPreferences, cause the latter is a TWiki page and should not be changed manually with an editor.

-- GuidoOstkamp - 29 Jul 2001

I have the same "Can't locate Net/SMTP.pm" problem with TWiki20010901 on MacOsX 10.0.4 (Darwin). Is this a configuration issue, or do I have to hack Net.pm?

Perhaps a solution is to fallback to sendmail when TWikiPreferences has SMTPMAILHOST set empty.

-- ToddJonker - 26 Sep 2001

This might be a shot in the dark.. but check the path that perl is using to find its libs. I had too versions of perl (5.6.0 & 5.6.1) installed on my box and didn't notice for a while. Configuration is RedHat 7.1 ,apache 3.2.1, TWiki20010901. I was getting:

Software error:

Can't locate Net/SMTP.pm in @INC (@INC 
contains: ../lib . /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl) 
at ../lib/TWiki/Net.pm line 38. 

I was putting the packages into the 5.6.1 directory.

After putting the Net::SMTP lib in the 5.6.0 directory, fixed all of my problems. Funny how that works ;)
-- EricMckenna - 26 Oct 2001

Have a look at my comment on SendmailPerlSmtpSwitch and see if you can install Net::SMTP - the CPAN tools will figure out all the dependencies.

-- RichardDonkin - 28 Oct 2001

It is now possible to select between Net::SMTP and sendmail. Details in SendmailPerlSmtpSwitch.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Dec 2001