[Cialug] outgoing mail help

John Roach jroach at simplicitysys.com
Fri Feb 5 19:19:56 CST 2010


If using the gmail account as the outbound account, you will want to use 
smtp. From the global config, select smtp from the drop down. You will 
want to select Yes for smtp auth, and enter your gmail  login info and 
host info.

Hope this helps.

John

jrnosee at gmail.com wrote:
> I've got a server set up at home that I'm running a qa/test site off 
> of for my townhome group.  Ubuntu server on VMware (running on ubuntu 
> desktop) that's bridged to my regular network.  Running joomla 1.5.15 
> (latest) on php5/mysql/yadayadayada.  I can't get my Joomla instance 
> to send notification emails out and I don't know why.  From account is 
> a google apps gmail account.  Joomla gives options to send via PHP 
> mail function, sendmail, or smtp.  None seem to work for me.  I've 
> never done much of anything on linux involving email beyond accessing 
> web/pop based mail.  I am NOT running this as an actual mail server.
>
> Any thoughts, hits, suggestions, etc?
>
> Thanks!!!!!
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