SID-02040: Mail Error

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I have installed twiki windows personal and at the time of registration getting error-

ERROR: Can't send mail using TWiki::cfg{MailProgram} at C:/twiki/perl/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 314. at C:/twiki/perl/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 314 CGI::Carp::realdie('ERROR Can\'t send mail using TWiki::cfg{MailProgram}') called at C:/twiki/perl/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 389

Any help

-- TWiki Guest - 2015-03-21

Discussion and Answer

So, what did you configure as your TWiki::cfg{MailProgram}?

There are two ways for TWiki to send Mail:

1. Using an external Mail program.
2. Using Perl's Net::SMTP and an external Mail server.

The second method should be easier to set up unless you are very familiar with mail programs and with setting up external programs on Windows. For this, you need to

• Install Net::SMTP (if not already present in your installation)
• Set the configuration values {WebMasterEmail}, and {SMTP}{MAILHOST}, and maybe authentication parameters for the mail host, {SMTP}{Username} and {SMTP}{Password}. The values can be either obtained from your usual mail program or from your friendly network administration.

-- Harald Jörg - 2015-03-21

TWikiForWindowsPersonal is meant for personal use, hence not pre-configured for user registration. It is based on a rather old TWiki release, it needs some TLC to upgrade. On Windows I recommend to DownloadTWikiVM.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2015-03-21

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