Troubles with sending e-mails OJS

[rodrigogsilvestre]

First of all, sorry my english, I'm a brazilian guy trying to write in English, all right?


Hi, I have problems with my OJS version 2.2.2, the application is not sending e-mails for the users.

The software is installed at a Debian OS, and it's configured to send e-mail by PHP function in the config.inc.php :

; Use SMTP for sending mail instead of mail()
;smtp = On

I have already installed SendMail in my server. I have to configure something?


Thanks!
Rodrigo Silvestre

[netfunda]

Dear Rodrigo Silvestre,

The easiest and the fastest way to send emails is to use SMTP with service providers like gmail.com, yahoo.com etc. Please note the following:

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; Use SMTP for sending mail instead of mail()
smtp = On

; SMTP server settings
smtp_server = ssl://smtp.gmail.com
smtp_port = 465

; Enable SMTP authentication
smtp_auth = PLAIN
smtp_username = myemail@gmail.com
smtp_password = my_gmail_password


Thanks,
Rahman

[rodrigogsilvestre]

Thanks,

I'll try.

[rodrigogsilvestre]

Thanks!
It's works for me!

[himanshu18in]

it do not work for me? what i do?

[NaeemMajeed]

Hi,

I tried the above mentioned settings for my google account (using the google applications mail service). The email won't go and I keep on getting the same error:

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 503 This mail server requires authentication when attempting to send to a non-local e-mail address. Please check your mail client settings or contact your administrator to verify that the domain or address is defined for this server. in E:\inetpub\vhosts\sajms.org\httpdocs\classes\core\String.inc.php on line 188
There was an error sending this email. Please check your mail log (/var/log/maillog).
OJS: There was an error sending this email. Please check your mail log (/var/log/maillog).



Please suggest some solution.

[NaeemMajeed]

And now I am getting this error instead of the above, after checking everything once again:



Warning: fsockopen() [function.fsockopen]: unable to connect to ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465 (Unable to find the socket transport "ssl" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?) in E:\inetpub\vhosts\sajms.org\httpdocs\classes\mail\SMTPMailer.inc.php on line 165
There was an error sending this email. Please check your PHP error log for more information.
OJS: There was an error sending this email. Please check your PHP error log for more information.

[jmacgreg]

Hi NaeemMajeed,

It looks to me like your version of PHP does not have SSL support included. You can check to see whether your PHP supports SSL by checking the Extended PHP Info link, available from Site Administration -> System Information (the link is at the very bottom of the page). You can find a lot of information about enabling this on the web.

Cheers,
James

[mendesrocha]

The easiest and the fastest way to send emails is to use SMTP with service providers like gmail.com, yahoo.com etc.

The mail delevery of my OJS/SEER was not great. Some messages were not been delivered. Then, I decided to active SMTP Settings and we used our hosting service SMTP. Once we still had problems with mail delivering I changed the e-mail settings to Gmail SMTP.

Gmail SMTP delivery service is OK. But, an Editor related me the following problem:

From now on, all messages sent from OJS have the gmail address as the Header "From". So, when a user answer a message sent by OJS, it is anymore directed to the Editor personal address, but to the gmail address. Hence, the "Editor" has to open the gmail webpage to check for responses.

An alternative should be to filter these response in Gmail and redirect it to "Editors" personal address.

Best wishes,

[mcrider]

Hi mendesrocha,

FYI, This is discussed over at http://pkp.sfu.ca/support/forum/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=6282.

Cheers,
Matt