After experiencing the initial problem of a signup confirmation mail not going out, and going through the various posts on that topic, I finally found a fix without having to use a plugin or use pear functions.

In the file /bb-includes/pluggable.php add the following lines at the top:

ini_set("SMTP","mail.YourDomain.com"); //IP or server name for smtp server

ini_set("smtp_port","25");

ini_set('sendmail_from', 'ValidEmailAccount@YourDomain.com');

This worked in my case. I hope this solves other people’s problems too.

[@djp Member 16 years, 7 months ago]

@amit_online

I will try this on my installation instead of the PEAR workaround & let you know if it works.

Thanks

[@sambauers Participant 16 years, 7 months ago]

Those ini_set() calls could go in your bb-config.php as well and should work just the same.

Having said that, I think this hack will only work on Windows Servers running IIS. But I’m not 100% sure about that.

[@sureshdrim Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

I have problem with mail sending functionality.Whenever a user registers or clicks on lost password on my website i.e. http://www.thecollegehunt.com .The user doesn’t get any password link.

I have SMTP server name and port number with me,please tell me any workable solution.

thanks

Suresh

[@johnhiler Member 14 years, 11 months ago]

Try this plugin Suresh?

https://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/smtp-mailer-for-bbpress/

[@sureshdrim Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Dear Johnhiler,

I tried this plugin.I provided following settings:

/* SETTINGS */

// Set to ‘smtp’ to use an SMTP server

var $mailer = ‘smtp’;

// Set a specific name that emails will appear to come from

var $from_name = ‘me@example.com’;

// The hostname of the SMTP server

var $smtp_host = ‘smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com’; //my SMTP server name

// The port (default is 25)

var $smtp_port = 465; //my SMTP port number

// Use authentication (true or false)

var $smtp_auth = true; //in my case authentication is mandatory

// Authentication user

var $smtp_user = ‘me@example.com’;

// Athentication password

var $smtp_pass = ‘password’;

/* END SETTINGS */

Rest everything is as it is. Still problem is not solved. Any idea please !!!

[@chrishajer Participant 14 years, 11 months ago]

Can you test that SMTP connection with something other than the bbPress plugin? Maybe an email client like Thunderbird or something? The password, before I edited it, had your domain name in it, which didn’t really look like a normal SMTP password. Try the connection with the settings you’re using for the plugin in some other email client to see if it works, then try the plugin.