14 December 2009, 9:05

Hi everyone!

i am using dreamhost sharedhosting..whenever i am trying to register a new user ,it fails.This might me due to the e-mail problem. but whenever i tried the wordpress and joomla on the same sharedhosting,the e-mail program was working fine.

But with mahara the e-mail is not working..what might be the problem?

however,if i want to configure the smtp as smtp.gmail.com... how shud i do that?

can  anyone will help me out ?

Thanks 

19 March 2013, 23:00

you can try the following

The solution for this error was that the SMTP URL was invalid.

wrong format 

 $cfg->smtphosts = 'smtp.gmail.com';

right format

$cfg->smtphosts = 'ssl://smtp.gmail.com:465';

 $cfg->smtpuser = 'Your gmail username';  
$cfg->smtppass = 'Your gmail password';

Ps: This code must be on config.php in the root folder

one a note, google has a security feature that if  this mahara server is some where else than the usual location, google will consider it as a  HACK and will deny the access.

you will have to to google.com/blocked then recognize the device sign in. next time  on, it will be fine.