[horde] Mailer SMTP option not working

[Friis-Hansen]

On 09/25/2011 03:23 PM, Jeff Tipton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have my mail system and Horde on separate machines on my LAN, so I set
> $conf['mailer']['type'] = 'smtp';
> But when I'm trying to send a message from IMP, it fails with "Error
> when communicating with the server". When I look up the mail system's
> logs, no attempt to log in appears.
>
>  From Horde's host, I can telnet to my mailsystem and send a message.
> This is the "Mailer" part of my config:
>
> $conf['mailer']['params']['host'] = 'hostname.domainname.local';
> $conf['mailer']['params']['port'] = 25;
> $conf['mailer']['params']['auth'] = 'PLAIN';
> $conf['mailer']['type'] = 'smtp';
>
> This is the contents of horde/imp/config/backends.local.php:
>
> $servers['imap'] = array(
> 'disabled' => false,
> 'name' => 'IMAP Server',
> 'hostspec' => '192.168.2.11',
> 'hordeauth' => full,
> 'protocol' => 'imap',
> 'port' => 993,
> 'secure' => ssl,
> 'maildomain' => 'domainname.tld',
> 'smtphost' => 'hostname.domainname.local',
> 'smtpport' => 25,
> 'quota' => array(
> 'driver' => 'imap',
> 'params' => array(
> 'hide_when_unlimited' => true,
> 'unit' => 'MB'
> )
> ),
> 'acl' => true,
> 'cache' => false,
> );
> ?>
>
> Although I set Horde's log level to "debug", when sending I only get
> these lines with [imp] mark:
>
> Sep 25 12:41:56 www HORDE: [imp] Load config file (conf.php; app: imp)
> [pid 61971 on line 861 of "/usr/local/share/pear/Horde.php"]
> Sep 25 12:41:57 www HORDE: [imp] Load config file (nls.php; app: horde)
> [pid 61971 on line 861 of "/usr/local/share/pear/Horde.php"]
> Sep 25 12:41:57 www HORDE: [imp] Max memory usage: 21233664 bytes [pid
> 61971 on line 474 of "/usr/local/share/pear/Horde/Registry.php"]
>
> Any ideas of how to solve this?
> Thanks.

I am not very good at Horde, but have you tested if the smtp is actually 
working:
telnet hostname.domainname.local 25

As it is set up with you, it looks like smtp will fail in case quota is 
at limit.

Regards
Carl Friis-Hansen