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--- tips:mailconfig [2008-10-12 18:12] – updated to refer to the swiftmail-plugin Michitux
+++ tips:mailconfig [2024-02-02 17:15] (current) – old revision restored (2018-01-25 15:14) Aleksandr
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 ====== Sending mails with SMTP ======
-There is a plugin for [[plugin:swiftmail]] available that handles sending mails over external SMTP servers. Read on the [[plugin:swiftmail|plugins page]] for details.
+There is a [[plugin:smtp|SMTP Plugin]] available that handles sending mails over external SMTP servers. Read on the [[plugin:smtp|plugins page]] for details.
 Everything below is no longer needed and shouldn't be used unless there is a specific reason.
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 return @mail($to,$subject,$body,$header);
 </file>
 ===== Unix (Linux) sendmail setup =====
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 <file>
 ; For Unix only.  You may supply arguments as well (default: "sendmail -t -i").
-sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -syour.sendmail.host.com -t -i
+sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -s your.sendmail.host.com -t -i
 </file>
-Replace '''your.sendmail.host.com''' with the name of the machine you use for sendmail services.  Note that the ';' at the beginning of the line is removed.  You may need to restart the web server for this to take effect (''/etc/init.d/httpd restart'').
+Replace '''your.sendmail.host.com''' with the name of the machine you use for sendmail services.  Note that the ';' at the beginning of the line is removed.  You may need to restart the web server for this to take effect (''/etc/init.d/httpd restart''). You may also have to add the respective user sending emails to the ''mail'' group. and restart php5-fpm (user logout).
 **(2)** If for some reason you can't do (1), another solution is to create a script that
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   - in mail.php, delete the line \"$header = mail_encode_address($to, 'To');\" and change \"return @mail(null, ...\" to \"return @mail($to, ...\"
->>>> On Windows, with PHP properly installed to already know the SMTP and sendmail_from parameters, all I had to do was modify mail.php as described in the preceding note.
+>>>> On Windows, with PHP properly installed to already know the SMTP and sendmail_from parameters, all I had to do was modify mail.php as described in the preceding note
 >>>>> My ISP uses qmail with a windows server.  Any ideas how to configure this one?