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When a user signs up for an account on my Geeklog site, they are told they will receive their password via email. Is the site supposed to be sending this automatically, or am i missing something?

Yes, Geeklog will send the account information automatically. For this, it uses PHP's mail() function, so you need to make sure you can send mail from PHP. bye, Dirk

I'm not as versed in PHP as I should be.... could you explain where I set that up? Thanks a lot!

You'll find everything you need in the PHP manual.

bye, Dirk

If you are using Windows, edit php.ini and add smtp information.

It seems to be a weird thing. PHP on my server fails to send only password. Other wep-apps and GeekLog itself in other cases do function OK, e.g., at sending mails from one user to another. I am pretty familiar with PHP (2 years, more-less), thus I took a look at emailpassword function. Everything seems OK - I do not know what's wrong.

I found what my problem was and thought I would post the answer here to assist others having the same problem. My geeklog site would not email out anything, but I could use sendmail and send anything myself. I found the problem to be that \'localhost\' didn\'t resolve to anything. This created the problem that when the site tried to use sendmail through php it was not gettigg the mail out. I added an entry in /etc/hosts that reads \'localhost 127.0.0.1\' and now everything, including the password mails to new users upon approval, is working fine. I hope this helps.

What borked linux distro were you using that you didn\'t have that in /etc/hosts by default? All distros I have come across seem to get that right. Is it possible you inadvertently removed that some time ago?

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