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Author:  Tren [ Tue Apr 15, 2008 8:47 am ]
Post subject:  Problem getting Email settings right in phpBB 3 (using SMTP)

Hello all,

I have a personal account and a hosted domain. The phpbb 3 board setup went fine but I'm really struggling to setup email for the board.

I've created a new email with password at my domain (info@mydomain.org) which seems to work fine using webmail.

In phpbb 3, I'm trying to use SMPT, the settings I have are -

Enable board-wide e-mails: enabled
E-mail function name: mail (<- this is the php function)
Contact e-mail address: info@mydomain.org
Return e-mail address: info@mydomain.org
Use SMTP server for e-mail: Yes
SMTP server address: mbox.100ws.com
SMTP server port: 25
Authentication method for SMTP: LOGIN
SMTP username: info@mydomain.org
SMTP password: the email password

The error I get when trying to send email from the board is -

Could not connect to smtp host : 13 : Permission denied
<b>[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice</b>: in file <b>/includes/functions_messenger.php</b> on line <b>835</b>: <b>fsockopen(): unable to connect to mbox.100ws.com:25</b><br />

There are the following Authentification options -

PLAIN
LOGIN
CRAM-MD5
DIGEST-MD5
POP-BEFORE-SMTP

I don't know which I should use. I've tried them all with no luck.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong or what I should try?

Many thanks.

Author:  Viktor [ Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:24 pm ]
Post subject: 

I will advice you to disable the SMTP send method. That is how your forum will use the php mail() function for sending notifications.

Author:  Tren [ Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:57 pm ]
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Thanks Victor, disabling SMTP and it seems to work.

Cheers!

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