Hi, I've had a few problems installing my first shot at using Drupal, but managed to overcome all but this one, so I'm hoping someone could help out.
My hosting company hasn't upgraded PHP to support the latest release of Drupal (they have 4.3.2 installed) so I tried installing 4.5.7 and managed to get it working fine, with the exception that emails aren't sent to new users when they register or request password. Given this is fairly crucial to what I want to use Drupal for it is a crippling problem.
I've searched the knowledge base and found comments that this could be down to how my host handles the email function, so I emailed them asking about the problem, as the SMTP module isn't supported by version 4.5.7.
My host got back to me with this info regarding mailing:
>> Limitations
If you use scripts to send email from a website, please be aware that:
- all outbound email is routed through our outgoing email servers
- we limit the number of emails you can send in any thirty second period and any ten minute period.
>> PHP on Windows
Use the PHP mail function and set the mail from using the following line of code - replacing email@mydomain with the correct domain name.
ini_set("sendmail_from", " email@mydomain ");
-----
The problem I have is I'm not tech savvy enough to have the first clue how to integrate this information. I can handle editing code and have phpmyadmin installed to manage the DB so I'm comfortable making changes, but I'm at a loss here.