Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Sending mail via SMTP

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5: Re: Sending mail via SMTP (response to 3)
Posted by kousalya S on
Hi ,

I need to send mail from mailto:xxx@gmail.com
where i need to specify the authentication.

I have acs-mail-lite and tcllib installed.

please specify the steps to be configured everywhere in the package to send the email to any domain.

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6: Re: Sending mail via SMTP (response to 5)
Posted by Ryan Gallimore on
Have you tried setting the acs-mail-lite parameters in the SMTP section?
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7: Re: Sending mail via SMTP (response to 6)
Posted by kousalya S on
I have give in config file
"ns_param mailhost smtp.gmail.com"

and i have given in acs-mail-lite parameters:

BounceDomain: smtp.gmail.com
SendmailBin SMTP

what else to be configured.

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8: Re: Sending mail via SMTP (response to 7)
Posted by kousalya S on
we have a mail server where i configured for it .
I can send the email within the email server but not to any other email domain.

so what else to be done?

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9: Re: Sending mail via SMTP (response to 7)
Posted by Emmanuelle Raffenne on
Hi,

What version of OpenACS are you using?

Also you may want to check on the configuration of your local mail server. OpenACS will use your mail server to send emails out so if you can't reach any domain but yours, it's probably related to the configuration of your local mail server.