phpBB - Email functionality?

Does anyone know what email settings I need to use in phpBB 2.0.7? Whenever anyone tries to join my forum, they are presented with a debug error message. Emailing is clearly not working, but I have never used php myself, being an ASP.Net developer.

I assume email within phpBB should work on jodohost?

If you're running on a Windows server, I believe JodoHost has misconfigured PHP mailsending there

You need to enable "Use SMTP Server for email" in the phpBB configuration, and set it to mail.m****here.biz or similar.

For other php scripts you may have problems with, this makes the mail() function work for me on Win5:

PHP:

ini_set("SMTP", "mail.m****here.biz");

Would be easier if JodoHost fixed that particular configuration value though 8)

I dont think we have misconfigured it.. we set mail.jodoshared.com as they smtp server in php.ini

What value should we change?

I've tried using the SMTP settings too, but without luck.

My domain with Jodohost is archonevolution.com. I used mail.archonevolution.com for the SMTP server address, username I set to [email protected] and I provided the mailbox password.

Should this have worked then?

It's set to "localhost" on Win5 in any case. And you shouldn't use mail.jodoshared.com, but rather mail.m****here.biz, as reseller customers can request the current setting using ini_get() which would identify JodoHost as the actual hosting company, which you were trying to avoid with the m****here.biz thing.

Try it without the username and password, I believe SMTP authentication is currently disabled on the mailserver.

Thanks SubSpace - I'll give it a go.

Incidentally, how do I determine if I'm hosted on Win5?

Yep -That worked SubSpace. Much appreciated

Sorry, we are using mail.m****here.biz... said mail.jodoshared.com because it gets censored... Even for the DSN connections for CF, we take particular care to use m****here.biz

i'm not sure why its set to localhost on win5, i'll have that changed

Log on to your H-Sphere control panel and go to Account - Account Settings, check under Host Name. That should tell you which server you're on, I can't determine it easily since you seem to have a dedicated IP on your domain, or at least one I don't recognize

Thanks again. Looks like I'm on Win2.

The domain root? Even if there isn't anything critical in there I would feel a bit apprehensive against placing a configuration files there for all to see.

If it's just the SMTP server to use and maybe 1 or 2 other settings, I would prefer using ini_set() in your standard include file, which would have a PHP extension so it's not viewable.

I just installed PhpBB on a dedicated Plesk 11.5 server.
It functions perfectly except it wont send email.
I followed the instructions listed in this chain, such as using 'localhost' setting SMTP on and off,
creating a username in Plesk users for email, w/password, entering them into PhpBB,
but without any luck. PhpBB just simply doesn't seem to want to send email.

If anyone has any suggestions, or even better, a cheat-sheet on how to setup Plesk to work with PhpBB I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!
David

Stephen, hello!
Windows version of Plesk.

Thank you!