Email setup under Windows/Apache/Perl

Hello, I've recently installed FosWiki 1.1.2 for Windows and all seems to be working great, except the email functionality.

I'm having a hard time getting this to work. I'm not sure what to put under {SMTP}{MAILHOST}.

I have tried my Exchange Server name or IP address with no avail.

Not sure if I need to install anything else on the Server and change {MailProgram} field too.

What about {SMTP}{SENDERHOST} {SMTP}{Username} and {SMTP}{Password}?

There's no way for me to recover lost or forgotten user passwords without email functionality.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks!

Sergio Nayar

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Adding your Exchange server hostname to {SMTP}{MAILHOST} is probably the correct configuration. Generally {MailProgram} is not used on windows. The {SMTP}{SENDERHOST} is typically not needed, but you can set it to the hostname of the server hosting Foswiki.. The {SMTP}{Username} and {SMTP}{Password} fields are typically not needed but it really depends upon the mail server configuration, and whether or not the SMTP server needs Authenticated SMTP.

Probably you will need to talk to the administrators of the Exchange server and have them add a "connector" to accept SMTP email from you Foswiki server. It really depends upon the version of Exchange, and how the Exchange server is configured.

If you enable the Expert SMTP Debug setting in the configuration, you will get a lot more details of the send attempt in the debug log. $Foswiki::cfg{SMTP}{Debug} = 1;

-- GeorgeClark - 14 Sep 2011