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In most of the time, there shouldn't be any mail problem with Drupal after the installation cause the installation process will configure the email automatically.

Today I 'm setting up another drupal site in another web hosting company, strange things happen after the drupal installation. although I have set the privilige that visitor could do self registration providing email address, I could not receive any mail doing my own registration testing. and there 's no errors at all in the log.Read more

After successful configuration of the SMTP Authentication Support module according to the previous article here, It seems everythings is OK for a while until I register email account on Gmail and then I find out that It seems my drupal could not send email to any Gmail account!

It looks like my previous configuration does not solve everything, I have to think it through and find out why.Read more

Some hosting company has more strict access control for web hosting. one of the restriction is to prevent the 'nobody' user from sending email with no authentication. For drupal hosting at such company, the default email function of drupal will not work after the installation for such web hosting , We have to install the SMTP module to support drupal email functionality.

Steps to install and configure the SMTP Authentication Support moduleRead more