UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 7 Installation and Upgrade Support E-mail configuration?

I'd like to send an e-mail to my members, but I'm pretty sure I blew past any e-mail server configuration during the V7 install and now I can't find anywhere in the control panel to set it up post hoc.

Is there a field in the database that needs to be populated?

Dirk

Email is generally setup in your PHP setting in the php.ini

check those smtp settings. It is normally setup during PHP setup.

Your boards will use that default php setting.. all you need to do is supply an email address to use. You can set this in the admin >> primary settings just under your board close message.

Will do. Thanks for the quick reply. I'm still so used to UBB.classic and the CGI Control Panel. This learning curve has been steep...

Dirk

Maybe this isn't as simple as I thought.

/etc/php5/php.ini has a couple of line items for default mail stuff in Win32, but seems to demand a SendMail path for non Win32 servers. I'd like the UBB install to use an SMTP server on the local network which, in turn, has permission to talk to the mail servers at my ISP.

I think I'm missing a step. Can I force the mail server address into the DB?

Dirk

leave Sendmail Path blank if you're on Win32 as PHP won't even read it, regardless of what you put in there. It's smart enough to know if it is on Win32 or not.

It's a linux box, but the mail server is running on a Windows machine elsewhere on the network. Will UBBthreads handle the SMTP transaction with a mail server directly or is it uniquely set up to integrate with sendmail on Linux and something else on Windows?

Currenly it relies totally on the PHP configuration. Most of the time if sendmail is installed on a linux box you don't need to change anything at all with the php config. Now that we've switched to a new mailer library I think I can put in a config option to specify a mailserver to use. That likely wouldn't come until 7.1 however.

Wait. As I get this, although you're on a linux box that has sendmail you want to use an SMTP server on another machine?

Fill out the SMTP part of php.ini and leave p[ath to sendmail blank if you really do want to go that way.

And be sure that the SMTP server will allow relay from the linux server.

To echo Rick's reply to your question:


It's not UBB.threads' job to handle the mail transaction. PHP does that according to your settings in php.ini.

If you want to use sendmail fill that part out, if you want to relay through an SMTP server then fill that part out instead.