Hi,

> > > Both the smtp server and the "from" address are right. Does it require a
> > > password?
> >
> > I'm fairly sure that this is a configuration issue for your SMTP server.
> > Is there anything else on your machine using that mail server that is
> > able to send mail out?
> 
> The SMTP server has been working fine. We have mailing lists and
> dynamic websites that use that server everyday.
> 
> However, Pootle and our SMTP server run on different hosts... Is there
> any problem with this? All of our websites are hosted on a shared
> host, except our Pootle installation (which has its own server).

as you pointed out later, this sounds like a mail server configuration issue. If
the mail server and the pootle server are not part of a private subnet, then the
mail server will surely require some authentication before relaying arbitrary
mail.
(otherwise I would call it an "open relay", which would be bad)

Maybe you want to try if the mail server accepts mails from the pootle host by
opening a smtp session manually?
Just do:
 telnet $mailserver 25
and then:
 MAIL From: $your_from_address
and finally:
 RCPT To: $some_destination_address

I assume that the mail server will reject the recipient, since it is not
managing the destination domain.

As far as I can tell, pootle does not support smtp authentication for these
cases. So maybe you want to use something like "ssmtp" or "estmp" for relaying
the mail to the mail server. These programs support smtp authentication and act
as a local mailserver (relay only).


hope that helps,
Lars

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