I have a basic Drupal install and a bunch of users.
How could my Drupal users receive e-mails from the outside world at their address (e.g. user#my-drupal-install.com)?
Thank you!
Drupal is a system for serving web pages, it does not run mail servers. If there is no mail server present on your system, you will need to install one. Once you have a mail server running, you can install a Drupal module such as Webmail Plus to provide a webmail interface for your users.
For the case you describe I think the best way to handle this is to set up a mail server with automatic forwarding, and run a batch process once a day or so that extracts the usernames and their e-mail addresses from your Drupal database's user table. Drupal itself doesn't need to be involved in the actual sending and receiving of e-mail at all.
If you are using the Drupal username as the first part of the e-mail address then your export script could just run a query like
SELECT name, mail
FROM `users`
WHERE 1
as part of a shell script that populates a table of e-mail addresses to forward to. For the correct formatting and configuration of such a file you'll really need to dig into the documentation of your e-mail server.
Thanks all!
You've put me in the right direction and I ended up writing a script that reads the Drupal's users table and configures the mail server accordingly.
I've turned it into a small Python library for WebFaction, available at http://code.google.com/p/drupal2mail.
Hope it's useful for some!
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Currently, I am developing a website using Drupal 7 in my local computer.
I have set up Contact Form (Drupal core module) for user to send feedbacks.
However, I have no idea how to send email from Contact form. I didn't receive any email after I filled in and submitted the contact form. And website displays the status "The message has been sent." But there is no email received.
I know there must be something I need to setup before using Contact Form. Maybe mail server?
I use Drupal 7 with XAMPP.
Is there any step-by-step guideline on sending email? Maybe for both cases
Local machine as web server (for testing on my local computer)
Real web server (for publishing after everything is done)
I have searched some solutions in some forums but I do not understand.
I am new to Drupal.
Thank you so much for your help and guidance.
For getting mail from contact form,
Enable the module
Go to admin-> structure-> contact form
Create new category
Fill the details Category, Recipients (you need to give the mail you need to get notified), etc...
If you need to test the mail in local then you need to setup SMTP module in your drupal, this will work in server also.
If you don't have any any SMTP settings then you need to test in server. In server you may don't need any smtp mail, simply php mail may work if your hosting server is support. So no need to do any extra effort for that.
I'm trying to confugure a contact form module to send the forms to custom e-mails other than the administrator's, wich is from the same domain as Joomla installation.
When I configure the module to send to administrator's e-mail, it works fine. However when I input other e-mail adresses from different domains to be the recipient, the e-mail isn't sent.
I already tested with Breezing Forms and B2J Contact, and this problem happened with both of them so I suppose it's a Joomla configuration problem. Using B2J Contact allows me to add two e-mail recipients, so I tested using the administrator's as main and the other from a different domain as copy, and I receive the e-mail only on the main recipient.
I'm using PHP Mail as the send method and my Joomla version is 3.3.0.
I've been researching for days and can't seem to find a solution.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I solved this problem by changing the send mail method to SMTP and placing the right port number, which I got from my host provider.
I am using OWA on IE8 and am do not have any email client like outlook installed. We just access email in the browser using OWA.
Is there a script (maybe a scraper) that backs up the emails?
How do I go about writing such a script, is there a OWA API?
I googled a lot but every solution first syncs OWA to exchange or outlook or some other email client and then backs it up. I do not have that luxury.
I have python installed, so a simple email client script written in python can be helpful too, if it can somehow be configured to logina nd read emails from OWA.
Thanks !
http://davmail.sourceforge.net/ can be used as a proxy to expose OWA folders via IMAP and POP3.
The main goal of DavMail is to provide standard compliant protocols in front of proprietary Exchange. This means .. IMAP to browse messages on the server in any folder, POP to retrieve inbox messages only, .. Thus any standard compliant client can be used with Microsoft Exchange.
Then question becomes how to make backup of IMAP or POP3 server.
It's not possible to export mails in bulk from OWA, as far as I know.
As you suggested the only way would be using Outlook..
I have a dedicated Linux web server where my website is running like www.example.com.
Now I want to start another service for my users and want to give mailing features like Gmail and Yahoo mail.
I want to give facility to my users to create email IDs as they create on Gmail or Yahoo Mail and use it as their email address like XYZ#example.com or ABC#example.com.
Is this possible for me to use my dedicated web server as mail server too,
or I need to hire a new specific mail server for this purpose.
Also, if I can use my server as mail server and can give IMAP and POP like features then what are the PROs and CONs in that?
My hosting company says that I have facility to create unlimited email addresses
and I have created a few for mt like support#example.com and feedback#example.com
and I am getting emails on these IDs.
Is that mean, my hosting already have setup a mail server for me (the same I mentioned in my question and want to setup)
Or this is just for me to use and manage my website and I can not share these email addresses with my users by giving an email service.
Yes you can run simultaneously a web and mail server. Follow part 3 of this guide: http://mysql-apache-php.com/ to set up email. Just make sure that your router is fully capable (supports NAT etc.) - it should be able anyway
However it does appear from your question that your hosting company has set up its own mail server. Which does mean unlimited emails, however the only issue could be the amount of space they are willing to host for you (As in you can only have 2 GB of space on their mail server). Hope this helps.
I need a cross platform (at least windows and mac) development utility that runs as an SMTP server that acts as an SMTP server but will redirect all mail to a single address that's configurable. It would also be helpful if it wrote the contents out to a file or gui. Long ago I configured Apache James to do this but it wasn't that straight forward to figure out. Hoping there's something really simple out there.
I need the emails to be forwarded (to the single address) so I can see how they are rendered on different clients (gmail, outlook, etc.)
Thanks! -Mike
We used Mailtrap for this. It give you remote smtp server account and direct access to all mails in it. So you just enter given smtp credential in your application and after that all email sent by your system will be visible on mailtrap.
On mailtrap you can have as many smtp account as you want( different account for different application environments, or different application) Also you can manage access to your account ( so only trusted people will se your emails) and you can forward some emails to real email addresses.
It doesn't do the forwarding you are looking for, but for most of my testing I make use of fakemail (http://www.lastcraft.com/fakemail.php) it's simply a script that listens on a port an acts as an smtp server, writing any incoming mail to a directory.
You could use Python's smtpd library and override the process_message function to only send to the desired address -- i.e. replace the "to" field with your desired constant email address.
Here's a page with some examples of using smtpd (with asyncore) to actually send out mail.