[imp] Can't send email

[Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E.]

On Dec 14, 2008, at 5:41 PM, Craig White wrote:

> On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 16:46 -0800, Adam Dershowitz Ph.D., P.E. wrote:
>> I just installed horde and imp on a CentOS system.  I am using imp-h3
>> 4.3  and horde 3.1.7.
>> Most things are working fine.  I can read imap email and such as
>> expected.  But when I try to send email it doesn't work.
>> I have horde set to use localhost for the mailer.  I also have imp  
>> set
>> to use localhost for the smtp server.
>> When I click to send a message, a window opens as expected and I can
>> fill in the expected information.  When I then click send the window
>> empties and nothing else happens.  I have set horde to the highest
>> logging level but nothing shows up in the log that is relevant.  The
>> mail never goes out, and doesn't show up in my sent box.
>> I can send mail from the command line both by using mail, and also by
>> telnet to localhost port 25, so I know that smtp is working on the  
>> host.
>> Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
> ----
> check the logs on the server.../var/log/messages and the apache  
> logs /var/log/httpd/[ssl_]error_log
>
> your problem is certain to be noticed in either/both of them
>
> Craig
>

Thank you.
This was a good clue, and helped me figure things out.  The log file  
that mattered was actually /var/log/httpd/MyServerName-error_log.  It  
turns out that horde could not find /usr/share/horde/imp/config/ 
header.php because I had not set up that file.  Now it is working.