The joe@ispname part I already had.

 

I changed the MXRecord setting as you suggested, restarted the service and tried again.  I tried to “compose answer” but got hit with an invalid From address (otrs@localhost).  On my search for that setting, I went back into config.pm and realized that I still had the SendmailModule information remarked out.  I made it active, relaunched OTRS, found the email addresses settings and put my email address in.  After restarting the service it appears to be working.

 

Thank you for your assistance.

 

-- Joe Fusco

 


From: otrs-bounces@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-bounces@otrs.org] On Behalf Of West, Bradley G.
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:06 AM
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS.org
Subject: RE: [otrs] SMTP Authentication

 

Joe,

 

Sometimes cable and DSL providers require that your user name be in the format:

 

joe@ispname.com

 

instead of

 

joe

 

 

You also may have a DNS name resolution problem where your smtp host is not being resolved properly.

The only other thing I can think of is changing the default parameter for check MX record to 0 in your Config.pm file.

 

    $Self->{CheckMXRecord} = 0;

 

I hope this points you in the right direction

 

Brad


From: otrs-bounces@otrs.org [mailto:otrs-bounces@otrs.org] On Behalf Of Joe Fusco
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:51 AM
To: otrs@otrs.org
Subject: [otrs] SMTP Authentication

I’m running off a cable modem with the ISPs mail system.  I don’t have an email account set up with them for OTRS. I have OTRS running local since I am the only user.  I’m not worried about incoming mail. I can easily create the tickets by hand.  I would, however, like to have OTRS send out notifications of ticket creation, resolution, etc.

 

I modified the config.pm file yesterday to include the following:

 

    # SendmailModule

    $Self->{'SendmailModule'} = 'Kernel::System::Email::SMTP';

    $Self->{'SendmailModule::Host'} = 'smtp.[mailprovider].com';

    $Self->{'SendmailModule::Port'} = '25';

    $Self->{'SendmailModule::AuthUser'} = 'myusername';

    $Self->{'SendmailModule::AuthPassword'} = 'mypassword';

 

My email, using MS outlook and POP3, works fine.  When OTRS tries to send a message, I get “Authentication Failed.”  Is there some other setting I need to tweak or should I contact the cable company’s High Speed Internet helpdesk to see what I need to do to authenticate?

 

Thanks,

Joe Fusco