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Just leave all of that configuration out and set up a mail server on the observium host and it'll send via that.
There are a lot of mails in the list archives showing his few config options you actually need to use!
Adam.
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On 4 September 2014 23:57:18 Darian Jimenez darian929@gmail.com wrote:
Which backend do I use then?
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On Sep 4, 2014, at 6:51 PM, Adam Armstrong adama@memetic.org wrote:
Hi,
Don't use the SMTP backend, it seems to be choking on the images in the
alert messages at the moment.
adam.
On 2014-09-04 22:48, Darian Jimenez wrote: Hello, I was able to get some alert checks going but email doesn't seem to be
working.
When I try the test_mail.php script it eventually times out giving me the following. ./test_mail.php -h fwtec.sup.domain.local Sending test notification for fwtec.sup.domain.local...Mailer Error: Failed to connect to myemailserverl.protection.outook.com:25 [1] [SMTP: Failed to connect socket: Connection timed out (code: -1, response: )] done. my config.php has the following for email settings. $config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "xxx@mydomain"; $config['email_from'] = "Observium observium@mydomain.com"; $config['email_backend'] = "smtp"; $config['email_smtp_host'] = 'mymaildoman.protection.outook.com [2]'; $config['email_smtp_port'] = 25; $config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE; $config['email_smtp_auth'] = TRUE; $config['email_smtp_username'] = 'xxx@mydomain'; $config['email_smtp_password'] = 'xxxx'; $config['email_smtp_timeout'] = 10; I am able to successfully telnet to my email server on port 25 but can't seem to send. What am i Missing? Links:
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