E-mail notifications

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hello,

What is the best way to send email notifications in SMF? PHP or SMTP?

Currently I am using PHP, but today I did not receive a notification on a message, and also many preregistrations of my forum users do not reach them.

[Liviu Lalescu]

I saw here: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?msg=4129396 that SMTP is better than PHP. But when I configured for SMTP, it does not want to send test emails and in errors I get something like "SMTP server not responding".

What settings should I use for SMTP with TLS?

[Costa]

I've had that recently.

It was the webmaster e-mail that wasn't the same.

Using the same e-mail on both fields, all work fine.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Nope, I did like that (from the beginning). I get the error:

"Could not get mail server response codes"

[Liviu Lalescu]

Found the problem Googling (and landing on an older SMF forum post): I need to write the SMTP server starting with ssl://, like: "ssl://lalescu.ro"

[Liviu Lalescu]

The page I found the stuff with "ssl://..." is: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?msg=3922467

I have one more question: I tried with "tls://..." and it works. May I keep it like this?

[Kindred]

yes

[Liviu Lalescu]

Thank you!

You might want to add some help there for beginners like me.

[Steve]

Help where? In the manual? If so, bringing this to @Illori and @Irisado's attention.

[Liviu Lalescu]

Maybe better directly there, with a question mark "?" and when you hover above it it will show this information, or maybe add more items to the combo box:

PHP (default)
SMTP
SMTP with SSL
SMTP with TLS
SMTP with STARTTLS.

and "SMTP with SSL" means that internally SMF will consider "ssl://domain.com".