[horde] Help in configuring a webmail install to send / receive emails properly

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Louis-Philippe Allard <lp.allard.1 at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I am having a hard time getting a fresh webmail install to send & receive
> emails to/from a Gmail account.
>
> IMP is currently configured as my backend for Horde's authentication, and
> IMP is configured  for IMAP retrieval of emails from my Gmail account with
> this in /imp/config/backends.php
>
> // IMAP server
> $servers['imap'] = array(
>     'disabled' => false,
>     'name' => 'GMail IMAP Server',
>     'hostspec' => 'imap.gmail.com',
>     'hordeauth' => true,
>     'protocol' => 'imap',
>     'port' => 993,
>     'secure' => 'ssl',
> );
>
> When I try to send an email with Horde, I ger a error popup saying "There
> was an error sending your message: Sendmail error 127"
>
> Sendmail is only used locally to send emails for system services, etc
> (cron, alerts, smarttools, etc).. Not to be used for email communications.
> This is why I want to use Gmail.  Anyways, it apprears as if my home IP was
> on a blacklist for some email providers (namely hotmail) so using Gmail
> will be more reliable.
>
> /horde/config/conf.php has the following lines in it
>
> $conf['mailer']['params']['sendmail_path'] = '/usr/lib/sendmail';
> $conf['mailer']['params']['sendmail_args'] = '-oi';
> $conf['mailer']['type'] = 'sendmail';
>
> I tried to replace "sendmail" by smtp but I get "Cannot connect to SMTP
> server" or such message.  What would be the best & most reliable way to
> configure Horde globally to use Gmail exclusively for both authentication
> AND email communications?

You should configure a global SMTP server using Gmail's smtp server  
settings. Don't try to edit the config manually, use the GUI.
-- 
mike
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