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h1. Owncloud server setup outgoing mail

see also http://doc.owncloud.org/server/5.0/admin_manual/configuration/configuration_mail.html

add following settings to @/var/www/html/owncloud/config/config.php@

<pre php>

<?php

$CONFIG = array (

  /* Enable SMTP class debugging */

  'mail_smtpdebug' => true,

  /* Mode to use for sending mail, can be sendmail, smtp, qmail or php, see PHPMailer docs */

  'mail_smtpmode' => 'smtp',

  /* Host to use for sending mail, depends on mail_smtpmode if this is used */

  'mail_smtphost' => 'mail.example.com',

  /* Port to use for sending mail, depends on mail_smtpmode if this is used */

  'mail_smtpport' => 587,

  /* SMTP server timeout in seconds for sending mail, depends on mail_smtpmode if this is used */

  'mail_smtptimeout' => 10,

  /* SMTP connection prefix or sending mail, depends on mail_smtpmode if this is used.

     Can be @, ssl or tls */

  'mail_smtpsecure' => 'tls',

  /* authentication needed to send mail, depends on mail_smtpmode if this is used

 * (false = disable authentication)

 */

  'mail_smtpauth' => true,

  /* authentication type needed to send mail, depends on mail_smtpmode if this is used

 * Can be LOGIN (default), PLAIN or NTLM */

  'mail_smtpauthtype' => 'LOGIN',

  /* Username to use for sendmail mail, depends on mail_smtpauth if this is used */

  'mail_smtpname' => 'mail@example.com',

  /* Password to use for sendmail mail, depends on mail_smtpauth if this is used */

  'mail_smtppassword' => 'secret',

);

</pre>

if you experience trouble with @{"app":"mail","message":"SMTP Error: Could not connect to SMTP host.","level":3,"time":1363709674}@ it might be that SELinux doesn't allow PHP to make outgoing connections. You may fix this by

<pre><code class="bash">

setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1

</code></pre>

since it turned out that @owncloud@ uses the FROM also for the SENDER address and not the configured @mail_smtpname@ a hack in @./owncloud/lib/private/mail.php@ was necessary.

This is fixed as of ownCloud 7.0

<pre php mail.php>

// about line 73

                $mailo->From = $fromaddress;

                $mailo->FromName = $fromname;;

                //$mailo->Sender = $fromaddress;

                $mailo->Sender = 'mail@example.com';  //same as 'mail_smtpname' => 'mail@example.com' in config.php

                $a=explode(' ', $toaddress);

</pre>

maybe someone clever can patch it to use the configured value from @config.php@ instead of hard-coding it.