By danonne on

Hi,

I am sorry to post such a question but I am a complete beginer here.
I have just set everything up and I can access the "Welcome to your new Drupal website!" page.
From here I need to create a user account but I am afraid something is wrong with my email setings (smtp to be more speciffic).
I am trying to use smtp.google.com as the smtp server. In the instructions provided by google - they talk about username and password being used - i have those but i have no idea how to get php to use them.
Can anybody please help?
Also the talk about TLS and turining it off??

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netbjarne’s picture

netbjarne commented

If I understand you right, you want to use an external smtp server - for this, you might want to take a look at the smtp module here: http://drupal.org/project/smtp

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danonne commented

Well I am not sure... I mean I dont really care what smtp to use - I have the address for my ISP SMTP server but I still dont know how to get it working (as it gives me the same error message as smtp.google.com)
I used WAMP to setup all of the server stuff.

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davemybes commented

If you are using a pre-made WAMP package eg. uniform server (excellent option, if you're not), then you can check on the package's website to see how they setup a SMTP server - that is basically what you need. I don't know the specifics to do it all manually, though. You could also just do a Google search to see how to setup a SMTP with your version of Apache.

You will most likely have to use your ISP SMTP settings as most ISPs don't like you relaying through an external SMTP address. That said, you should be able to get Google's one to work, although there will be more configuring to do because of the TLS etc.

Hope this helps you a bit.

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danonne commented

Ok i downloaded phpmailer but i have no clue what to do with it...
I looked on google - it seems like its the authentication problem but i cannot find a way to fix it...
I just dont get it!.... (maybe cause i do not program...)
What i need to do is allow my drupal site to send email out...
I have apache 2, mysql and everything is setup but now i need to create the first account on my site and it wants to send the password to an email address but it cant
Please help!!

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danonne commented

Ok, I have no idea what the technical implications were but all I did was I copied the class files from phpMailer in to the php includes folder in php.ini ... thats it ... i didnt change any settings, I even have the wrong smtp address in php.ini (its listed as smtp.gmail.com when its supposed to be smtp.google.com)
anyway its works and i am happy for now :)