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Just now I migrated my website to server machine. I noticed that website is not able to send any email. It is showing "Unable to send e-mail" error.

Below is the screenshot of the error- enter image description here

I can see some directory permissions error in status report at admin/reports/status. Are these related to each other?

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It's very likely that your new server does not allow mail to be sent from the web service. This could be because it blocks the SMTP port, or because it doesn't allow PHP to use mail(). You should be able to contact their tech support to ask. If not, you can try uploading your own PHP script that uses the mail() function and see what errors it gives you.

IMO, this is a good thing... web servers shouldn't be sending emails for a variety of reasons.

I would recommend using something like this: https://drupal.org/project/smtp

It will let you send email through a real email account, of course you'll have to make sure there's not a block on the port it uses.

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  • Hey I can see some directory permissions error in status report at admin/reports/status. Are these related to each other?
    – Ravi Joshi
    Apr 7, 2014 at 14:00
  • I doubt that they are, however you may see more detailed errors if you're able to properly log the error reports. You may want to correct that issue and see if any errors related to mail show up.
    – jdu
    Apr 7, 2014 at 14:22
  • Can you please tell me the locations of error log files? I am using Apache server in Ubuntu 10.
    – Ravi Joshi
    Apr 7, 2014 at 15:15
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    I think your server logs will be at: /var/log/apache/error.log ... but if they're not there, you may want to post to an Ubuntu forum for better help.
    – jdu
    Apr 7, 2014 at 15:26
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Following settings worked for me on windows.

Download and enable SMTP Authentication Support module

If You use Gmail to set up STMP follow these steps:

SMTP server: smtp.gmail.com

SMTP port: 465

Use encrypted protocol:Use SSL

SMTP Authentication -- Your gmail User Name and password

Leave the other options by Default

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  • Thanks Nayana, it was resolved long back but I truly appreciate your answer.
    – Ravi Joshi
    Dec 7, 2016 at 13:58
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Use SMTP module.

Do not forget to check Access for less secure apps. It should be Access for less secure apps enabled.

https://www.google.com/settings/security/lesssecureapps

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