I newly installed project-open and everything works fine now. Except sending notify mails.
When I add some users, I can choose to send a notify mail, but I the following error occurs:
I have the same problem. My understanding is that by default, PO CANNOT send emails (on windows anyhow). Installing a mail server on the same box did not work and configuring an external smtp server sounds complicated. At least I couldn't get it done. If you search in forum you'll find something about configuring a postfix a "smart host" etc. etc.
Please share if you can get it done.
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I'm just using an outside mail server (if you for instance are paying for a web hosting service with your own domain name and e-mail boxes). Under Administration -> Parameters just set these parameters:
BounceDomain => your mail server's address (e.g. mail.mydomain.com)
SendmailBin => SMTP
This should work I think. I did this a long time ago …
Best,
Michael
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I am using a webhosting service.
But I don't know where to configurate ]po[ that it works with this service. In other threads i read something about the etc/config.tcl file and took a look into it. But I have no idea where I have to put the data.
Could you give me a hint?
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I`m having the same problem with the configuration over Windows. My problem is that my smpt server needs authentication, but I cannot find where to put the user and password for the sender account.
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks, Andres.-
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Finally the PO is working on Windows with SMTP.
What I did was to install an smtp program(http://www.hmailserver.com/).
In the PO, I configured mailhost as localchost and within hmail I did a Relay of the smtp to my hosted mail using a valid account on the hosted mail.
SO, PO send en email to localhost then hmail connects to my mail server and voila.
Hope it helps.
Best Regards, Andres.-
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There are a couple of things you need to be aware of.
0) Do you have an SMTP server. If you do not know what I am talking about or don't have one, follow Andres solution.
1) Answer the following question: Does your SMTP Server require authentication. You can check this in your E-Mail Settings. If you need to provide username and password in outlook for your SMTP server, then it requires authentication.
If the answer is "No", then just set the SMTPHost in the parameter section of acs-mail-lite (go to administration => parameters) and edit config.tcl to setup the mailhost.
If the answer is yes, you have a couple of options:
1) Install a relay only mailserver as Andres suggested. Look our for relayhost and SMTP in google, this will teach you how to do it. Then configure localhost as your SMTP server
2) Use ]project-open[ 4.0 and configure SMTPHost for acs-mail-lite along with username and password.
Best wishes
Malte
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Talking about SMTP Relay. If you are running a Linux variant (ubuntu / centos) use postfix as your local smtp server instead of hmailserver suggested above. Google for postfix and relayhost. Or read:
I newly installed project-open and everything works fine now. Except sending notify mails.
When I add some users, I can choose to send a notify mail, but I the following error occurs:
When I add a user to a project, I also send a notify mail, but the user does not get one, even though I don't get any error message in this case.
I have no idea where to configurate this settings.
I have the same problem. My understanding is that by default, PO CANNOT send emails (on windows anyhow). Installing a mail server on the same box did not work and configuring an external smtp server sounds complicated. At least I couldn't get it done. If you search in forum you'll find something about configuring a postfix a "smart host" etc. etc.
Please share if you can get it done.
Could somebody help me please?
You either install you own mail server or you could use. If you have a Linux box, here's is a guide about installing one of the most frequently used mail systems:
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch21_:_Configuring_Linux_Mail_Servers
I'm just using an outside mail server (if you for instance are paying for a web hosting service with your own domain name and e-mail boxes). Under Administration -> Parameters just set these parameters:
BounceDomain => your mail server's address (e.g. mail.mydomain.com)
SendmailBin => SMTP
This should work I think. I did this a long time ago …
Best,
Michael
I am using a webhosting service.
But I don't know where to configurate ]po[ that it works with this service. In other threads i read something about the etc/config.tcl file and took a look into it. But I have no idea where I have to put the data.
Could you give me a hint?
Hi,
Check for "mailhost" in the config.tcl
Cheers!
Frank
please eloborate with an example how to configure the mailhost. i'm searching for two days with no luck so ended up here. please hel[p..
I`m having the same problem with the configuration over Windows. My problem is that my smpt server needs authentication, but I cannot find where to put the user and password for the sender account.
Any help will be really appreciated.
Thanks, Andres.-
Finally the PO is working on Windows with SMTP.
What I did was to install an smtp program(http://www.hmailserver.com/).
In the PO, I configured mailhost as localchost and within hmail I did a Relay of the smtp to my hosted mail using a valid account on the hosted mail.
SO, PO send en email to localhost then hmail connects to my mail server and voila.
Hope it helps.
Best Regards, Andres.-
Hi Andres,
Do you mind to show some example on how to configure hmailserver?
Thanks.
Best Regards,
Wei Boon
Hi Andres,
Thanks for sharing your solution with the community!
Frank
I am facing the same problem, I have downloaded hmailserver, but cannot understand how to configure it to forward mails to my IMAP mail server.
Appreciate help.
There are a couple of things you need to be aware of.
0) Do you have an SMTP server. If you do not know what I am talking about or don't have one, follow Andres solution.
1) Answer the following question: Does your SMTP Server require authentication. You can check this in your E-Mail Settings. If you need to provide username and password in outlook for your SMTP server, then it requires authentication.
If the answer is "No", then just set the SMTPHost in the parameter section of acs-mail-lite (go to administration => parameters) and edit config.tcl to setup the mailhost.
If the answer is yes, you have a couple of options:
1) Install a relay only mailserver as Andres suggested. Look our for relayhost and SMTP in google, this will teach you how to do it. Then configure localhost as your SMTP server
2) Use ]project-open[ 4.0 and configure SMTPHost for acs-mail-lite along with username and password.
Best wishes
Malte
Talking about SMTP Relay. If you are running a Linux variant (ubuntu / centos) use postfix as your local smtp server instead of hmailserver suggested above. Google for postfix and relayhost. Or read:
# Now it is time for configuring postfix
sudo apt-get install postfix heirloom-mailx
sudo emacs /etc/postfix/main.cf
# Search for relayhost and add the following lines beneath it. Change the relayhost to your external SMTP server
smtp_sasl_auth_enable = yes
smtp_sasl_password_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/smtp_auth
smtp_sasl_security_options = noanonymous
# Now add your credentials to smtp_auth in clear text
yourrelayhost.com yourusername:yourpassword
# And add this to your postfix database
sudo postmap /etc/postfix/smtp_auth
sudo /etc/init.d/postfix reload