[ZendTo] New Installation - Admin Login - SMTP Configuration issues on AWS

[Kris Lou]

Verify that the uploaded file exists?  If I recall, ClamAV and apache need
write access to the uploads directory.  The installer should already deal
with this, but doesn't hurt to check.


Kris Lou
klou at themusiclink.net

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 8:47 AM, Pawan Thakur via ZendTo <zendto at zend.to>
wrote:

> Hello Kris,
>
> Thanks a lot for your swift reply. It helped me.
>
> While emails are still an issue, I created users and I can access the
> system and that's progress.
>
> 2 Issues with uploads
>
> 1. While uploading to the server, It gets stuck here.
>
> [image: Screen]
>
> I later checked my outbox, there was an entry and I could see the
> generated file link as well.
>
> 2. I could see the file and the link here. But clicking on the file /
> download all button goes into a loop and nothing happens. It's hardly a 4
> KB file.
>
>
>
> ===
>
> I started looking into this issue. Logs show messages about failed emails
> ( which I know is to be fixed ) but though it says Download is completed
> but nothing happened.
>
>
> *Note: *https://zend.to/clamavpermissions.php
> The memory issue was there from CLAMAV and I configured SWAP and did an
> external setup for it. I am not using SELinux*. *
>
> *I am just going to debug the Emails but any help related to these files
> not working would be appreciated*
>
> Thanks,
> Pawan
> On 10/10/2018 10:49 PM, Kris Lou via ZendTo wrote:
>
>
> 1. I see in preferences file admin Users admin1, admin2 and so on. How to
>> access the system as an admin ? is there a default Password ? If not, How
>> can I create one ?
>>
>
> This depends upon your authentication backend (
> https://zend.to/authentication.php).  There's a(n)
> /opt/zendto/bin/README.txt  which should document the commands/scripts
> needed to create local users (admin1, admin2, etc.), but "adduser.php" is
> probably the one you're looking for.  Execute that from CLI to add your
> first user and specify it as an Admin User in preferences.php.
>
>
>> 2. I am trying to setup the email using basic SMTP, it is throwing an
>> error. I created a one page php script to send mail with same settings and
>> that works. Can some one please share a Snippet or screen shot of how can I
>> setup SMTP
>
>
> I push emails to an external SMTP server, with only 'defaultEmailDomain',
> 'SMTPserver', 'SMTPport', 'SMTPsecure', and 'SMTPcharset' specified.  No
> local configuration required.
>
> For the previous 3-4 months, ALL of those settings except
> 'defaultEmailDomain' and 'SMTPcharset' were commented out, so it used the
> default PHPMail but still worked.  I would think that you still need
> Postfix or Sendmail on your local Zendto server, but still no local
> configuration required.
>
> Side note:  By default, PHPMail sends out as "apache@<servername>.<
> yourdomain.com>", so this may result in NEUTRAL grades if you have SPF
> set for <yourdomain.com>.  I believe the outbound email address is set
> via PHP settings.  However, using an external SMTP server bypasses this
> with a return address of "zendto@<yourdomain.com>" or whatever you may
> have configured.
>
> Also, enabling 'SMTPdebug' might help you figure things out.
>
>
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