Ok. here's the situation: I only have sendmail installed and running, no exim, postfix or other. I've checked this listing running services by using: netstat -tap
I successfully sent email using telnet like Bernardo suggested. Since I have sendmail working, couldn't I use it with web2py, instead of using some other solution? Txs José for the tip regarding sSMTP, I've also spotted what seems like a easy way to install and configure a mail server http://www.iredmail.org/. In case I can get this going I just might use sSMTP. txs, Miguel * * * * * * On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 9:44 AM, José L. <jredr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 4 dic, 21:54, Miguel Lopes <mig.e.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Bernado, > > > > 2010/12/4 Bernardo Botella Corbí <estem...@gmail.com> > > > > > Hi Miguel, > > > > > which test did you do from command line? > > > does web2py print something? Any error? > > > > > Try to do the next thing from the command line: > > > tail -f /var/log/mail.log > > > > If I try to send mail from web2py using local resources it fails > silently. > > I can use a gmail account to send the email it works, so perhaps I'm > > configuring gluon.tools.Mail wrongly: > > mail.settings.server = 'myIP:25' # your SMTP > > server > > mail.settings.sender = 'u...@mydomain.pt' # your email > > mail.settings.login = 'user:pass' # your > > credentials or None 'username:password' > > > > I'm unsure about mails.settings.server. Is this correct? > > > > > (if you are in ubuntu/debian, don't know where it would be in other > > > distributions...) > > > > > I'm using Debian Lenny. > > > > txs, > > Miguel > > > Using Debian Lenny you have probably intalled exim4 as mail server, > don't need to install postfix to do the same. > Do "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config" (previously install exim4-config if > you don't have it installed) and choose the option of your mail server > settings you prefer. > > Anyway, if you're not going to use it massively, I'd recomend you > replacing exim4 by ssmtp (the simplest mail server around), as it's > really easy to setup. > http://wiki.debian.org/sSMTP > > To test if it's working, then install mail-utils, and use the command > "mail" to send mails and check if they 're received. Then you are sure > your server setup is working and you can think of configuring mail in > web2py. > > Regards > José L. >
