Question

I have been desperately trying to configure a new installation of twiki to send mail simply so that I can register myself and start actually doing something.

The trouble is that, no matter what I do in bin/configure to get twiki either to send mail via my ISP, or to use sendmail, it keeps trying to use postfix on localhost, leading to errors in the log such as "Jul 25 16:26:35 localhost postfix/postdrop[11617]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such file or directory".

Here are my current non-working settings from LocalSite.cfg--these settings are the same as I use successfully from an email client on the same machine):

$TWiki::cfg{SMTP}{SENDERHOST} = 'abogusservername.com'; $TWiki::cfg{SMTP}{MAILHOST} = 'smtp.telus.net';

However when I leave all those settings blank and try to use the default (/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -oeq), nothing changes--I get exactly the same error.

I have even, in desperation, tried starting postfix, but I get exactly the same error message.

I do have Net::SMTP installed.

I don't have either SMTPMAILHOST or SMTPSENDERHOST set in TWikiPreferences.

So how do I register myself on my own twiki? I don't want to send mail from twiki for any other reason, so if there is a way to do this by editing a text file I would be quite happy with that. I know there is a way of using apache to handle logins, but it looks really complicated, and all this has got complicated enough as it is.

Many thanks in advance.

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-- RobertPersson - 26 Jul 2006

Answer

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If SMTP is installed TWiki will try to use it. It sounds like your mail configuration on that host is banjaxed. Can you use sendmail from the command line?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 21 Aug 2006

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-- PeterThoeny - 01 Oct 2006