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BobbyS,

What OS (Linux/Mac/Windows) and is your machine a desktop or server?

You only need email.smtp_auth = true if you usually require a username/password to send e-mail from your computer.

For example I've got cable broadband and my ISP does not require a username/password to send e-mail. If I was using ADSL the chances are my ISP would require a username and password, typically this would be your e-mail address and password.

So if you DO need as username/password your config.ini would look something like this:

email.smtp_auth = true
email.username = yourISPusername
email.password = yourISPpassword

That's one half of the story, next you need to know what mechanism is used to send e-mail from your machine, if you are running an smtp server I think the following setting in config.ini should work:

email.host = localhost

Alternatively substitute 'localhost' for the address of your ISP smtp server e.g. smtp.yourISP.com

I THINK all of the above is correct, well, it works on my Linux box.

Nick

if you dont have a local mailserver to use, you could use your isp´s smtprelay if they have one.. most isp´s have one. Another idea would be to install a local smtp server to send through.

How do you install a local smtp server?

if its a windows machine, you can just use the one build into iis.

hey guys

bobbys
- if your on windows you can install mercury mail server - http://www.pmail.com/overviews/ovw_mercwin.htm and then user localhost as the server
- in the next version you should be able to use gmail as the mail server - this should make it easier

cheers

justin