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I've been playing around with PHP for a while now and Geeklog definitely is the best portal site EVER. I am setting up an intranet site for my firm and I need to know how to get the e-mail function to work. I use Exchange 2K but if need be, the e-mail can be routed through the POP3 server. Maybe I'm missing it but I can't figure it out. Thanks!

It uses sendmail I think so ask your server admin about it.

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L. Whitworth
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L. Whitworth

Actually it uses PHP's mail() function. There may be some PHP compilation things you can do or there maybe sendmail wrapper for Exchange (thought I doubt it). I'd search groups.google.com for the answer to this.

Don't you a box running Linux? If not can you get one? Otherwise, if you PHP-fu is any good you can take PEAR::mail and modify the mail related functions in GL to use it .

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

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The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

PHP has hooks for Win32 email settings in php.ini Search the php.ini file for SMTP, and in that, enter the name (not ip) address for your email server. Since Geeklog uses php's mail() function, it will use your exchange server mentioned in php.ini I was testing some php code on the side inside our windows-only network (that needs changing soon) not related to GL, and mail() worked just fine. It should work just the same inside GL. I've been meaning to add some mail() functionality to my GL setup to get some custom emails for specific events, failed mysql backups, etc.

I'm working on a UNIX box and GL installs with all his plugins just smoothly.But, now I have to make it a production site and to connect it to our smtp server. However the "SMTP" php variable is dedicated for use with Windows OS (http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mail.php#AEN44471). Could it mean that it's impossible to make GL work (forum, mailing list, automatic forward, etc...) on something else that a Windows box?? I suppose the answer is no. Any anxiolytic response available? Thanks Basile---Basile

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Basile

GL works okay on a Windows server, but you may find yourself having to tweak around to get a few minor features to work correctly. All open source is like this.