Question2Answer fatal error: Could not send email confirmation

Question

I am getting this kind of error on my site while sending confirmation mail to new users.

 

Question2Answer fatal error:

Could not send email confirmation

Stack trace:

require() in index.php:31
require() in qa-index.php:165
qa_get_request_content() in qa-page.php:795
require() in qa-page.php:207
qa_send_new_confirm() in qa-page-confirm.php:54

Comments

Same problem, no issues at this time.... :( Please help :)

Answer 1

I hope you have it figured out by now. If not then, go to your cpanel and make no-reply@yourdomain.com it should work right away. Make sure to uncheck smpt mail setting.

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I have the same problem. Could you please make it more detail about how to solve it?
While I developed and tested locally, I did not have a domain email. How can I use it?
Thank you!

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check your pm...

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Can you explain it more detail? I still cannot figure it out. What is pm?
Thank you...

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go into your admin panel, Find Emails tab next to General.

Find where it says (Sender address for the messages from site:)
This is where you have to put in (no-reply@yourdomain.com),  

below this you'll see (Email address for admin messages - not shown to users:)
Use any email address there.

I believe q2a is designed to read no-reply@yourdomain.com as emails send out from the system. I don't know how you'll fix this if you can not make your address as no-reply@yourdomain.com.

how are you hosting your site on your machine?. xampp, wamp, mamp.

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I used wamp on my machine. We have a server but it's private and we have an IP address that we can access inside our network only. So nothing like no-reply@domain.com

So if I have a mail system in my server, it's gonna be all right, correct?

Thank you for your reply anyway.

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I believe it will require you to have same domain on your no-reply address to work. When I say same domain I mean where you are installing and can access your q2a site through browser.

If you have mail server, give it a try. See if you can make an email address there with (no-reply@what ever server name.something)

hope it will help you out.

Thanks

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Hi, I still cannot make it work. Is there anyway to disable the email function?

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@lyxhaven - PM means "personal message" and is accessible though the options at the top of the screen when you select your profile (top right corner of the screen in this case)

Answer 2

If you have the same problem, just define $port and $SMTPSecure in qa-class.phpmailer.php.

That's work for me.

Answer 3

I've had the same issue, and while this is not necessarily the same problem, you clearly have a problem with sending mail through your email server.  My potentially related issue is detailed in the following post, here on Q2As 'help' site.

 

http://www.question2answer.org/qa/50674/im-unable-to-use-email-need-basic-help

 

(This is for anyone else that finds similar issues, since I realize that this user is long-gone!)