Email Confirmation not working

In Admin -> Settings -> Moderation Settings:

I unchecked "Automatic profile confirmation without Confirmation Email".

Now when I create a profile, it says that the email confirmation was successful....But I receive nothing.

Is there a place within Dolphin 6.1.6 where I need to put my mail server's host name?

I am running the software on OpenSuse 11.1....just fyi.

My mail server is in another box.

Automatic Profile Confirmation means they do NOT have to respond to an e-mail to confirm their proifle.  This also means no confirmation e-mail is sent out for them to confirm.  To get a confirmation e-mail, uncheck the box and it will require them to respond to the confirmation e-mail in order to activate their profile.

What I meant was that I did uncheck the box. After registering a test user it will say that the email confirmation was sent. But I never receive anything :-\

What e-mail address did you use when you created your site?  Check inc/header.inc.php for it and make sure that e-mail exists on your server.

The original issue was that when I registered a new test profile,  I was not receiving the email confirmation to activate my profile. But now I realized I am also not receiving admin emails. I am thinking that maybe there must be some place where I am supposed to input my mail server's host name.

There is no mail server settings. Dolphin uses the settings the server host configured php to use.

Do what mydatery said. Look in your inc/header.in.php file and make sure your email address are correct.

Did that. My email address is there.

I just realized something about what you said. Where would you configure the mail server for PHP to use?

Would that be in php.ini?

I am running opensuse 11.1 using apache2 and php5.

I'm having the same issue, can't make the email to work.

When user registers or loses the password they don't receive any email back. I also tryied sending mass email but it doesn work, no mail es sent.

I'm with HostGator shared plan.

They are in the servers main php.ini file. Usally located in /etc

Look for SMTP and smtp_port.

The defaults should be localhost for the SMTP setting and 25 for the port.

If your running your own dedicated server, then you most likely should be looking at your mail servers settings if the email address your using is not local to your server.

Your email server would have to be configured to route outbound email through your providers SMTP server.

Your situation is most likley different. I suspect your cron settings. Hostgator would allready have php and mail settings setup. So either your email addresses in your /inc/header.inc.php file are wrong, or your cron job is not being processed.

I checked the inc/header_inc_php and my email is there.

This is what i have and was given when i installed Dolphin:

cd /home/xxxxxx/public_html/mysitesubfolder/periodic; /usr/local/bin/php5 -q cron.php

Every night i get this email but i'm not sure what that means:

<font color="red">register_globals is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)</font> <br /> <font color="red">allow_url_include is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)</font> <br />
Please go to the <br />
<a href="http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/GenDolTShooter">Dolphin Troubleshooter</a> <br />
and solve the problem.

Thanks for you help.

You will need to contact your host. Have them look into outbound emails. Also that error means they use a different php.ini file for the cron jobs and register_globals is on in that one. They may or may not do anything to help with that and i am not sure if the cron job aborts if that is encountered.

I found an article that talked about adding this to my php.ini:

[mail function]
; Setup for Linux systems
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t
sendmail_from = me@myserver.com

......Seemed like a likely fix but it did not work :-\

I noticed that I did not have sendmail configured on my server. I added my mail server's info....Now I'm just trying to see if there's a way to verify it works.

So far the website still will not email notifications.

Does anyone know how Dolphin actually sends emails?

Does it use sendmail? Or is it a module that was builtin?

If I can figure that out....Maybe I will be able to fix my issue.

-OpenSuSE 11.1, Apache2, PHP5

The earlier version of dolphin, version 6.0 does not have this on the inc\header.inc.php

$aErrors[] = (ini_get('register_globals') == 0) ? '' : '<f alt="red">register_globals is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)</font>';

So what I did is simply disable it by putting a // on the front like this:

//    $aErrors[] = (ini_get('register_globals') == 0) ? '' : '<f alt="red">register_globals is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)</font>';

Or simply delete it.