SMTP problem: site-generated registration email.

[rebaths]

Hello everyone,

I run my website with Drupal and am having some issues getting the new user registration email to send. The Drupal community told me to enable SMTP on my server.

What I have done is in php.ini, I've set SMTP= localhost
The email address the new user registration email is sent from is: registration@example.com

In my cpanel, I created "registration@example.com"

What else do I need to do on the server side of things to get this to work?

Thanks.

[jason]

Make sure that the From: address in your messages using the same domain name as the site (i.e. if your site is at www.mydrupalsite.com your should be sending emails from me@mydrupalsite.com, not something else like me@mysite.com). If you don't do that, JPC's mail servers may reject the message because it looks like spam.

If you've verified this and you are still having trouble, open a support ticket, as their could be something wrong with the way your account is set up.

--Jason

[Ron]

Some further thoughts/suggestions:

I could be quite wrong, but I would think that using SMTP would require username and password info... be sure to use the entire email address (i.e. registration@example.com) as the username.

I am not familiar with Drupal, but you may need to not use SMTP and use regular mail (or sendmail) instead.

If you do use mail (or sendmail) you might need to add the 5th parameter "-f registration@example.com" in the code.

If anything works, please let us know.