Kyle D. Skrinak

I discovered through the silent scream of no updates from my drupal installation that drupal’s mail wasn’t working. I fired up google and found this excellent post that gets you nearly there. What’s missing, of course, is the enabling binary called “sendmail.”

Here’s how to enable a GoDaddy CentOS Virtual Server’s sendmail so that Drupal can send email:

• Confirm whether senmail is working
  • service --status-all | grep sendmail
• Install sendmail and sendmail-cf
  • yum install 'sendmail sendmail-cf'
• Edit with your favorite editor (vim, no doubt):
  • vim /etc/mail/sendmail.mc
  • Search for ‘SMART_HOST’ and insert the line below just below it. Comment it for clarity’s sake.
  • define(`SMART_HOST',`k2smtpout.secureserver.net')dnl
  • Save and close file.
• Run this command:
  • m4 /etc/mail/sendmail.mc > /etc/mail/sendmail.cf
• Finally, start or restart your sendmail service:
  • service start sendmail

That did it for me.