PHPNUKE mail issues - IIS 6

[jcbarr]

I just recently installed PHPNuke on my IIS 6 server. I have successfully configured php to work with IIS and it is serving up PHP pages with no problems it appears. I have run in to a little bit of a problem with it though.

 

Users sign up for the page and they receive a message saying that they have successfully registered and that they should be getting a confirmation email within 24 hours to activate their account. The users, however, are never getting this email.

 

The registration is somewhat working, as the users are being inserted in to the temp_users table, but it doesn't appear that any mail is actually being sent.

 

I have installed the SMTP service to go along with IIS and have the ini set up to point to the localhost and use port 25 to send mail. I also have the SMTP server set up to only allow connections and mail to be sent from the localhost and no outside sources.

 

Has anyone had any luck with setting this up, or know any way to point me to try to figure this out?

 

I have looked over all the pages I can on google and they all tell me the same thing, "Configure your php.ini file and you should be fine."

 

PHPNuke itself is generating no errors, but the confirmation email never gets sent and even the user feedback form does not send any mail.

 

Any help or direction on this would be great.

 

Thanks.

[quasiman]

I don't use php nuke myself, but I've had similar problems with postnuke...turned out that the emails were being picked up as bulk/spam mail.  Not saying for sure that's what is happing, but it's a place to check.

[jcbarr]

Well, the problem is that I don't think that the mail is ever actually being sent. I'm trying to figure out how to check to see if the mail is ever leaving my server. If it is then I am pretty sure that I can figure out what is going on from there, but I don't have a clue how to configure the server to actually send mail.