I have now tried to solve this on my own for several days but It's clearly time to ask for help. My setup; ISPConfig Virtual Machine with chroot, suPHP. Works nicely. I have a friend whose Joomla site I started hosting but have been unable to figure out how to get the /usr/sbin/postfix to work in my server. I tried to use the "real" path, no luck. I tried to copy that to the users folder, no luck. I tried to define the whole path /var/www/web16/usr/sbin/postfix, no luck. Whats next? Anyone? Sam
Doesn't Joomla use PHP's mail() function? What are the settings that Joomla asks for (regarding email)?
Joomla So should it work if I just copy the binary to the specified folder? Remember I have chrooted environment with suPHP. Sam
SMTP connections do not work trough thes endmail path. Does joomla has no settings to use either the php mail function or a real smtp server?
Joomla There are 3 ways to do it in Joomla. PHP mail function Sendmail SMTP server If I choose PHP mail what should I put in the... Sendmail Path? Sam
The PHP mail function does not use the sendmail path. But you might have to setup SMTP in the php.ini. As Joomla supports SMTP Server too, I recommend to use this and not the php mail function.
Joomla mail But wouldn't you have to set up a relay settings in the smtp mail server settings then? Sam
That depends on your mailserver setup. If you use localhost as smtp server, you normally do not need to authenticate.
Joomla mail Got it to work with SMTP server setting. There was no need to set relay settings in the real mail server. Just had to define the usual SMTP settings and user authentication settings. Sam
