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[imranw]

Hello,

I am trying to work the password recovery option and after an email is entered and recover password link clicked I am getting the following message "Message could not be sent.Could not instantiate mail function."

I have a SMTP server name provided by the hosting company....where do I need to specify that along with any other options if any? Thanks

[imranw]

I am using ubuntu and sendmail is not installed by default. Manually installed it and I am no longer getting the original error message however during recovery no email is received from the server. Any advise?

[Bob.Weston]

did you configure the mail permissions after installing the send mail?

[imranw]

Sendmail was causing too many issues..unknowns..so I have removed sendmail and am now using phpmailer with SMTP option. Now the issue is that I can send an email using a php test script but phpvibe is still not sending any email

[Bob.Weston]

I was just looking at the class.phpmailer.php located in lib/ and it looks like smtp is not set to send mail.

go into that file and search for this line:

public $Mailer = 'mail';


and change it to:

public $Mailer = 'smtp';


If that don't work I also noticed a little farther down there is a line that says:

public $SMTPAuth = false;

as far as I know that should read:

public $SMTPAuth = true;

if you want to log in with smtp.. but am not sure.

Bob

[imranw]

hey bob...I already had those settings defined in phpmailer but it was still not working. Finally checked com_login.php and found that it uses noreply@ alias to send emails and my SMTP provider required that to match an existing email address. I created a new email alias (noreply@) and then updated phpmailer with that info and its all working now

Thanks

[Marius P.]

Sorry for not being around, sick as a dog
Glad all is fine.

[hexertem]

GMAİL SETTİNGS

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public $Mailer = 'smtp';


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public $Host = 'smtp.gmail.com';

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public $Port = 465;

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public $SMTPSecure = 'ssl';

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public $SMTPAuth = true;

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public $Username = 'xxxxxxxxx@gmail.com';

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public $Password = '1234567890';