Email Configuration problem

[monir112761]

I have a configuration like that

[email]

; Default method to send emails
; Available options: sendmail, smtp, log, phpmailer
default = sendmail

; Path to the sendmail, -bs argument is for using SMTP protocol
sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -bs"

; Use SMTP for sending mail instead of mail()
; smtp = On

; SMTP server settings
; smtp_server = mail.hrdbd.info
; smtp_port = 465

; Enable SMTP authentication
; Supported smtp_auth: ssl, tls (see PHPMailer SMTPSecure)
; smtp_auth = ssl
; smtp_username = help@hrdbd.info
; smtp_password = (removed)

; Enable suppressing SSL/TLS peer verification by SMTP transports
; Note: this is not recommended for security reasons
; smtp_suppress_cert_check = On

; Allow envelope sender to be specified
; (may not be possible with some server configurations)
; allow_envelope_sender = on

but the configuration still not working in ojs latest version. Can anyone help me to do this.

Thanks advanced
Monir

[asmecher]

Hi @monir112761,

Please be careful not to post passwords to public forums! I’ve removed the password from your post, but please change it ASAP.

Any line in the configuration file beginning with a ; is treated as a comment. If you want those lines to take effect, remove the semicolon at the start of the line.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[monir112761]

Thanks for your cooperation.

[monirehbastami]

Hi everyone…
First of all you should remove ; at beginning of each line related to config…

Sending mail is a serious problem for the most user using OJS. I solved this problem using SMTP gmail configuration and like to share my solution.

First Step:

Active SMTP gmail account

• In your Google/Gmail account, go to Settings
• Select the ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP’ settings
• Under the ‘IMAP access’ section, toggle on the option to ‘Enable IMAP.’
• Then, on the right side (under your picture account) click on “manage your google account”
• Select security tab and active 2-step verification.
• Click on App Password, if you can find it click the following link: https://myaccount.google.com/apppasswords
• Set password and in the "Select the app " section select “other (custom name)” item and set a favorite name for example: “SMTP”;
• You will receive a password. keep this password for SMTP configuration on OJS.

Second step:

Setup OJS Config File

1. Open config.inc.php file.

2. Set these configurations

default = smtp

smtp = On

smtp_server = smtp.gmail.com

smtp_port = 465

smtp_auth = ssl

smtp_username = [example@gmail.com (account](mailto:example@gmail.com%20(account) which used in the first step)

smtp_password = your_receive_password (password which is received in the first step)

if you have own SMTP server, change gmail with your domain name.