I am getting e-mail errors when trying to create users in Plone 3.0.3. Also, the "Send this" document action link appears to work, but no e-mail arrives.
I'm evaluating Plone on my personal laptop. In Mail Settings, first I tried to use my Gmail account and entered the following: SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com SMTP Port: 587 (the port my ISP requires me to use for other SMTP servers) ESMTP username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ESMTP password: (my Gmail password) When I try to create a user, I get the following: Error: Failed to create your account: we were unable to send your password to your email address: (530, '5.7.0 Must issue a STARTTLS command first i15sm7857213wxd', '"Chris Williamson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>') I did a little Googling and see there are some complexities (and maybe a bug) associated with Python, Zope and STARTTLS. So I try to simplify things and use my ISP's SMTP server: SMTP Server: smtp.att.yahoo.com SMTP Port: 465 (the port AT&T Yahoo says to use) ESMTP Username: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ESMTP Password: (my AT&T Yahoo password) Now when I try to add a user I get: Error: Failed to create your account: we were unable to send your password to your email address: Connection unexpectedly closed Knowing that port 465 involves SSL, I try to simplify things further by using port 25, both with and without username and password. I get the same error. I see in another post that I can work around this by turning off automatic password generation, and of course I wouldn't have this problem on a professionally hosted production site. But the 567/TLSSTART stuff makes me wonder if I need to report a bug, because I think the current Zope MailHost product is supposed to be able to do this. (There's a "Disable TLS" checkbox in the ZMI.) And the inability to connect to the AT&T server on 465 ... it just seems I should be able to make this work. One twist I have not mentioned: I've got Plone running on a virtual machine. All its network connections seem to be working fine. I even set up port forwarding and can connect to Plone from the host machine via localhost:8080 and via the Internet using my IP address and 8080. Maybe I need to set up some additional port forwarding, so Plone on the VM can receive data back from the external mail server? Seems unlikely though, since my normal e-mail cilent (Evolution) doesn't need me to open ports on my router to send e-mail via these servers. Ideas? Thoughts? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Can%27t-send-mail-via-external-server-tf4832075s15482.html#a13824452 Sent from the Installation, Setup, Upgrades mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Setup mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/setup
