Mail Doubt

Hi,

I have been using the bitnami mantis virtual appliance and I had some problems configuring the mail. According to mantis guide the methods to mail by are three:
0 – mail()
1 – sendmail
2 – SMTP

Which one should I use If I don’t want to use any external SMTP server? Which extra configuration should I add?

Thanks in advanced

Hi,

To use an external SMTP server you should use the SMTP method. You can configure the SMTP parameters: user, password, port and authentication method in the Mantis configuration file: installdir/apps/mantis/htdocs/config_inc.php

I am trying to get the email work , with no luck. I want to use the sendmail on the box that the bitnami is running on.

[bitnami@rh5 ~/lampstack-1.2-4]$ cat apps/mantis/htdocs/config_inc.php
<?php
$g_hostname = ‘localhost’;
$g_db_type = ‘mysql’;
$g_database_name = ‘bitnami_mantis’;
$g_db_username = ‘bn_mantis’;
$g_db_password = ‘314d649661’;

?>

sendmail is working on the machine as there are scripts that are running that have the email being sent out and alpine is working just fine.

Hi,

Maybe it is necessary to create a task in the cron. http://www.mantisbt.org/wiki/doku.php/mantisbt:…

okay, i reinstalled the LAMP and mantis as the system’s root.
The config_inc.php now reads
<?php
$g_hostname = ‘localhost’;
$g_db_type = ‘mysql’;
$g_database_name = ‘bitnami_mantis’;
$g_db_username = ‘bn_mantis’;
$g_db_password = ‘c210c121cf’;
$g_phpMailer_method = 1;
$g_from_email = ‘bitnami’;
$g_allow_file_upload = OFF;
$g_window_title = ‘MantisBugTracker’;
?>

I then do: php /opt/lampstack-1.2-5/apps/mantis/htdocs/scripts/send_emails.php
and it fails with the following:

APPLICATION ERROR #400

Previous non-fatal errors occurred. Page contents follow.

Yet Mantis is running and responding.
So what is going on?

That is strange, could you check if you can connect to mantis database using the command line?

mysql -u bn_mantis -p

and write the “db_password”.

What is the password for bn_mantis supposed to be? The only password I recall setting up was for the administrative user, but that does not work.
[root@rh5 ~]# mysql -P3316 -u bn_mantis -p
Enter password:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ’bn_mantis’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

In you case “c210c121cf”

oh. I thought c210c121cf was a mask for the real password.

okay,
“mysql -h url.name.com -P3316 -u bn_mantis -p”
gives a result of:
ERROR 1130 (00000): Host ‘url.name.com’ is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server
which makes sense.
but
“mysql -P3316 -u bn_mantis -p”
still gives a result of
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ’bn_mantis’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)

well this comes under the heading of What The Heck ???

for some reason (desperation?) I made the following changes to the config_inc.php

Then I did
[root@rh5 htdocs]# php /opt/lampstack-1.2-5/apps/mantis/htdocs/scripts/send_emails.php
which resulted in
Sending emails…
Done.

And the MantisBT web interface still works.

:?: :?: :?: Can anyone explain :?: :?: :?:

I’m glad to hear that. We will check the problem.