[Koha] Configuring smtp mail server to work with Koha

[Pedro Amorim]

Hello Michael and Mark,

Thank you for your replies.
Silly me, I forgot to mention I had already run the command
koha-email-enable so that is not the reason.

UPDATE:
I had the following entry on the logs:

Use of uninitialized value $OPACBaseURL in substitution

$OPACBaseURL is a variable being used in the mail template so I'm guessing
this was part of the reason. But I configured the OPACBaseURL parameter in
the administration panel and still no e-mail is being sent. Although it
doesn't log the message anymore. Instead of waiting for the cronjob to
trigger, I ran:

/usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl

Because I knew there was a record in message_queue with the status =
"pending", but after running the above command I got the following
message(s):

connect to localhost failed (Connection refused)
connect to localhost failed
connect to localhost failed (Connection refused) no (more) retries!

Cheers,

Pedro Amorim


2015-10-30 13:21 GMT-01:00 Mark Tompsett <mtompset at hotmail.com>:

> Greetings,
>
> Assuming you installed using packages:
>
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Commands_provided_by_the_Debian_packages#koha-email-enable
>
> GPML,
> Mark Tompsett
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Pedro Amorim
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2015 10:10 AM
> To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
> Subject: Re: [Koha] Configuring smtp mail server to work with Koha
>
>
> Update:
>
> I have installed and configured postfix on my machine and tested it using:
>
> echo "This is the body of the email" | mail -s "This is the subject line"
> user at example.com
>
> So I know it's well configured and my server is able to send mails.
>
> However, Koha still doesn't send any e-mail when I manually add a new
> patron.
> NOTE:
> 1) AutoEmailOpacUser is set to "send" in administration -> patrons;
> 2) All cronjobs were left as default. I also know they are running because
> my new records get indexed every 5 minutes.
>
> 2015-10-30 12:28 GMT-01:00 Pedro Amorim <pjamorim91 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello,
>>
>> I want to configure an smtp server so that Koha can use it to send e-mail
>> notifications.
>> I was expecting some sort of configuration file where I would configure
>> the server, username, password and some other parameters but that is not
>> the case.
>>
>> From my research I found 2 possible ways:
>> 1) Editting /usr/share/perl5/Mail/Sendmail.pm file and inserting the smtp
>> server at the top of the file, but where do I insert the smtp credentials
>> (user/pass) in that same file? or
>> 2) Through some postfix configuration which I really would like to avoid.
>>
>> Would anyone shed some light on the matter or provide some sort of
>> guidelines on how to do this?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>>
>> Pedro Amorim
>>
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