SMTP Module

What is the nature and purpose of this module?  I do not have it install on my site but have been in some discussions with a couple of people about the Boonex SMTP module  I did a search without finding any information.

It is rarely needed.

If not installed, dolphin will send mail using php which will send mail out though whatever the server has been setup to use for php. Normally the locally installed mail server.

The SMTP mailer module was created for those that need to be able to send mail out through a different SMTP server. Like one located on a different server than the one dolphin is running on. That is its only purpose.

Thanks Dean.  I have been helping someone move a site from shared hosting to a dedicated server.  The person wants to have several email accounts on his domain.  He wants access to the email account through a web interface  I have Postfix and Dovecot on the server and have been setting up RoundCube mail.  The first config I tried sending email from the server and the server responds that the mail has been sent; however, I never get the sent mail.  The mail log is not showing an error.  I made a change in the Postfix config and the person I am helping came back and said my config broke the profiles if the SMTP module was installed.  I am thinking that he will not need the SMTP module with his dedicated server.

This is not the first time I have configured a mail server; both the Postfix and Dovecot.  The first time I set up a mail server I had no real issues and the mail server sent and received emails without issues.  I am wondering if I need to look at the MX records for the domain?  Mail servers are a new animal to me.  This is only the second one I have set up and it is giving me issues.

The SMTP mailer module is not needed if the server has it's own mail server running. As i said, it's used to send mail out through a different SMTP server. So ignore that module. It's not needed for your setup.

Yes, check MX records. Check everything. The mail could also be queued in the server. You could have also received it. Did you check your spam filters?

Anyhow. I have always used Sendmail for a mail server. I grew up with it, so i choose it over postfix simply because i am used to it. So i can't help with postfix issues.

But i also have never had to touch mail servers or dovecot. On all of my installs of centos, sendmail and dovecot always works out of the box. All i need to do for send mail is tell it to listen on port 25 as it defaults to only localhost mail. Other than that, configuration should not be required.

Thanks Dean, I may just pull Postfix as the mail server and go with sendmail.

The DNS server entries were wrong.  There was nothing wrong with my configuration.  Once I corrected the bad DNS settings, I got the test mails I sent that were waiting in the queue.  By the way, I did not do the original DNS entries :-).