SID-00985: E-mail Notifications - custom SMTP

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	5.10.0
Category:	CategoryEmail	Server OS:	Mac OS X Snow Leopard	Last update:	15 years ago

Hi,

I have recently migrated my TWiki server to a new Apple XServe and all has gone well except that I need to have the webnotify system working and unfortunatly it appears to use sendmail which it cannot do as there is a mail server already bound to the ports so it just gets locked in a loop...

Is there any way of telling TWiki to use an existing SMTP server (namely the one hosted on the same XServe) without the use of sendmail?

-- PeterHerbert - 2010-09-29

Discussion and Answer

You have a choice of using sendmail or Net::SMTP. If you define {SMTP}{MAILHOST} in configure and CPAN:Net::SMTP is installed, it will be used instead of sendmail.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-09-29

Hi,

Thanks for your response however I have double checked that bot Net::SMTP and the SMTP are correct and have allowed the script to run again on schedule...

This time it didnt appear to use sendmail as my server logs were not spammed by its failed attempts to bind to port 25 but also there was no email sent out to the people on the notifications topic.

Is there anything you can think of that I might of missed?

-- PeterHerbert - 2010-10-01

Hello. In configure you have to set

{SMTP}{MAILHOST} The SMTP server (set the IP to avoid DNS resolution)

{SMTP}{SENDERHOST} The TWiki server

{SMTP}{Username} A valid username in the smtp server.

{SMTP}{Password} The password for that smtp username.

If you use SMTP option the mail server relying options should not interfere but you can try anyway to relax server security including twiki server ip in some kind of trusted hosts list.

Check twiki and web server logs for clues.

-- EnriqueCadalso - 2010-10-22

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-- PeterThoeny - 2011-01-04

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