[Koha] Configuring smtp mail server to work with Koha

[Pedro Amorim]

Hello,

I have solved the problem:
Sendmail.pm needs to have smtp => 'localhost' and port => 25 and the e-mail
notifications are now working.

Thank you,

Pedro Amorim

2015-10-30 14:23 GMT-01:00 Pedro Amorim <pjamorim91 at gmail.com>:

> Hello Galen,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
> I have changed the Sendmail.pm file to point to smtp.gmail.com instead of
> localhost and am now receiving these errors:
>
> # koha-foreach --enabled --email /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/
> process_message_queue.pl -v
> koha: sending email message to patron: Admin at
> /usr/share/koha/lib/C4/Letters.pm line 937.
> koha: MAIL FROM: error (530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first.
> uj4sm7521289wjc.34 - gsmtp
> koha: )
> koha: Server said: 530 5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first.
> uj4sm7521289wjc.34 - gsmtp
> koha:  at /usr/share/koha/bin/cronjobs/process_message_queue.pl line 66
>
> I do not know much about configuring mail servers, should I keep the
> Sendmail.pm file pointing to localhost and postfix takes care of the
> redirecting?
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Pedro Amorim
>
>
>
>
> 2015-10-30 13:57 GMT-01:00 Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Pedro Amorim <pjamorim91 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > connect to localhost failed (Connection refused)
>> > connect to localhost failed
>> > connect to localhost failed (Connection refused) no (more) retries!
>>
>> Koha expects there to be an MTA listening on port 25 on localhost.
>> Since you've got postfix already running, I suggest checking its
>> configuration for that -- specifically, inet_interfaces (to ensure
>> that it's listening on that interface) and mynetworks (to verify that
>> it will accept connects from with your Koha server).
>>
>> Alternatively, if the only thing you need is for email to get
>> forwarded to your mail smarthost, you could try nullmailer instead of
>> postfix.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Galen
>> --
>> Galen Charlton
>> Infrastructure and Added Services Manager
>> Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
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