<div dir="ltr">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the suggestion about looking at the mail.log which I didn't think to do. I confirmed that nothing is being written there or to the mail.err log. So, I imagine that it is not getting that far for whatever reason. </div><div><br></div><div>It is possible that my idea of trying to use something simple like ssmtp has more complicated things. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Edward</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 4:28 PM, David R Newman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk" target="_blank">drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi Edward,</p>
<p>I think SSMTP also writes to /var/log/maillog so it may be worth
checking that to see if there is anything useful. I typically use
Sendmail, which is a bit overkill but seems to be more helpful
when I am trying to determine whether there is issues with SPF
whitelists or similar.</p>
<p>I am not aware of any modifications to the EPrints configuration
for sending mail beyond what you have described.<br>
</p>
<p>Regards</p>
<p>David Newman<br>
</p><div><div class="h5">
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<div>On 01/06/2016 22:18, Edward M. Corrado
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello,
<div><br>
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<div>I configured ssmtp on my Ubuntu box and it sends e-mails
fine (via gmail) from the command line. However, whenever I
try to send a test e-mail from Eprints (v. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px">3.3.15</span>)
on Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS I get an error saying:</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">The
system is currently unable to send email. Please try
again later. If this problem persists, please
contact the administrator with details.</blockquote>
<p>The apache error.log file gets the following entry
written to it:</p>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Failed
to create SMTP connection to smtp<br>
Wide character in print at (eval 477) line 44.<br>
Failed to send mail.<br>
To: <a href="mailto:ecorrado@ecorrado.us" target="_blank">ecorrado@ecorrado.us</a>
<><br>
Subject: Test email from <a href="http://codabox.org/" target="_blank">http://codabox.org/</a>
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<p>Does anyone have any idea what to configure for
ssmtp? I tried some thing I found in various old
e-mails, but nothing seems to work. </p>
<p>The main things I have tried include: D<span style="font-size:12.8px">efining</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> my smtp server in <font face="monospace, monospace">perl_lib/Eprint/SystemSeting.pm</font>
file.</span></p>
<pre>> 'smtp_server' => 'smtphost.your.domain'</pre>
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<pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I tried localhost and a few other possibilities but no luck. </font></pre>
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<pre><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">I also checked that</font> <span style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="monospace, monospace">$c->{send_email} = \&EPrints::Email::send_mail_via_smtp;</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"> was uncommented in </span></pre>
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FWIW: After trying these things I did restart apache although
I am not sure if it matters.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>IS anyone using ssmtp with Eprints and has an idea what to
look for? If not maybe I will need to try Exim4 or Postfix.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Edward</div>
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