[imp] IMP says "there is an error sending your message"

[York College]

Hi Jim,

Thank you so much for your time and help. It works now!
I just changed 'sendmail' to 'smtp' in horde.php file as
you suggested. 

Best regards,
Laura


Quoting Jim Nikolich <jnikolic@oasis-technology.com>:

> Hi, Laura;
> 
> I had the same problem when I upgraded from a release-candidate version
> of
> IMP (on a linux 2.4 box) to IMP 3.0 on a Solaris 2.8 box.
> When I turned on Horde logging, I found that I was getting an error
> message
> similar to the following:
> 
> Mar 10 21:29:13 HORDE [error] [imp] sendmail [/usr/sbin/sendmail] not
> executable [on line 787 of
> "/usr/local/websites/www.compeuphoria.com/horde/imp/com
> pose.php"]
> 
> When I migrated from the Linux box to the Solaris box, I used my
> existing
> configuration.  Unfortunately it turned out that my sendmail executable
> was
> located in a different sub-directory.  Since I run Postfix, I ended up
> switching completely away from the "sendmail" method of sending mail to
> the
> "smtp" method.  It worked for me.  You might find that simply tweaking
> the
> specified location of sendmail in your "horde.php" will do the trick;
> perhaps switching to the "smtp" method will also work.
> 
> All of these settings are located in the same file:
> "horde/config/horde.php".  The setting I have found works for me are
> shown
> below.
> 
> Let me know if this helps!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim
> ___________________________________________________________________________
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> LOGGING
> -------
> /**
>  ** Horde Logging
>  **/
> 
> /* Should Horde log errors and other useful information? */
> $conf['log']['enabled'] = true;
> 
> /* What log driver should we use? Valid values are 'file', 'mcal',
>  * 'sql', and 'syslog'.
>  */
> $conf['log']['type'] = 'file';
> 
> /* What is the name of the log? For the 'file' driver, this is the
>  * path to a text file; for mcal, it would be the name of a calendar,
>  * and for sql it would be the table name to use. For the 'syslog'
>  * driver it is the facility as a _constant_ (with no quotes), e.g.:
>  * ... = LOG_LOCAL0;
>  */
> $conf['log']['name'] = '/var/log/horde.log';
> 
> /* What level of messages should we log? The values are LOG_EMERG,
>  * LOG_ALERT, LOG_CRIT, LOG_ERR, LOG_WARNING, LOG_NOTICE, LOG_INFO,
>  * and LOG_DEBUG. Each level logs itself and all those that come
>  * before it: LOG_ALERT would only log alerts and emergencies, but
>  * LOG_DEBUG would log everything.
>  */
> $conf['log']['priority'] = LOG_DEBUG;
> 
> /* What identifier should we use in the logs? */
> $conf['log']['ident'] = 'HORDE';
> 
> /* Any additonal configuration information, like an MCAL or database
>  * username and password.
>  */
> $conf['log']['params'] = array();
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> SENDING MAIL
> ------------
> /**
>  ** Mailer
>  **/
> 
> /* What method should we use for sending mail? Valid options are
>  * currently 'sendmail' and 'smtp'.
>  */
> //$conf['mailer']['type'] = 'sendmail';
> $conf['mailer']['type'] = 'smtp';
> 
> /* An array holding any parameters that the Mail object will need to
>  * function correctly. For sendmail, this is mainly the sendmail_path
>  * option; SMTP requires at least a server and a port (if
> nonstandard).
>  */
> $conf['mailer']['params'] = array();
> // $conf['mailer']['params'] = array('sendmail_path' =>
> '/usr/lib/sendmail');
> $conf['mailer']['params'] = array('server' => 'localhost');
>