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Installation SMTP settings
Thu, 02/04/2010 - 22:21
I'm trying to install Kaltura CE on a VPS server on my webhost, and our SMTP setting are smtp.domain.com and not localhost. I've logged for a config in the install directory but couldn't find a place for me to change the SMTP settings from localhost to something else. Has anyone else found out where to do this?
Thanks!
Kaltura needs some kind of local SMTP server to function for password resets etc. it is possible to ignore the warning and install but it won't be able to send any mail unless something is listening on port 25 of the local server. That's the bad news.
The good news is that if you're using Debian/Ubuntu as your host you can install a package called Nullmailer which will allow you to send all mail from PHP via a smart relay (i.e. another SMTP server that you have login details for or your IP has permission to relay via) which can be either authenticated or unauthenticated.
Otherwise sendmail/exim4/postfix all have "satellite" options to allow you to send via an external SMTP server, although these require a bit of hacking to set up, or you can install your own SMTP server on the host.
Please note that Kaltura will not detect a SMTP server if you are using Nullmailer and will continue to produce a warning but I can confirm that I do receive password resets sent from KalturaCE with Nullmailer acting as the MTA.
I don't know how Kaltura detects MTA presence or if it's easy for them to fix this in the next release without removing an important warning for those who genuinely don't have an MTA installed.