Mail function/settings

[ruffie]

I have installed 2 cms applications. Joomla and Elgg.
In both the "out of the box" mailing doesn't work, where on my other host (siteground.com) it does work, I don't have to setup anything there.

So can someone help with getting this working? Do i have to insert special smtp hostnames etc?

An example, in my Elgg config, there is:


// EMAIL HANDLING
//$CFG->smtphosts= ''; // empty (sendmail), qmail (qmail) or hosts
//$CFG->smtpuser = ''; // if using smtphosts, optional smtpuser & smtppass
//$CFG->smtppass = '';
//$CFG->noreplyaddress = ''; // this will default to noreply@hostname (from wwwroot)


I've read that monstermail only sends to email accounts on my host (so no external mailto addresses)? And besides, that requires other implementation into existing cms scripts, so thats a no go.

In Elgg i get the error message: "ERROR: Could not instantiate mail function." and in Joomla i get no error message, but no mail is sent.

Help!

[nerdykit]

I can't speak for elgg but for Joomla I just chose phpmail function, and I MAY have filled in /usr/sbin/sendmail/ but that might have been done automatically.

All I've got filled in is a valid account for my domain and no authorization required. Check the attached image below. (Email name has been obscured to protect the innocent... ha!)

If this works for Joomla, maybe a similar set will work for elgg (which looks interesting by the way, I hadn't heard of it).